The description of tonight’s performance on Experimental Sound Studio’s website claims that the astringent free-jazz trio Survival Unit III will play a “re-imagining” of its 2015 album Barrow Street Blues (Holiday), which documents an improvised concert the group gave at the Chicago Cultural Center in 2004. There’s some puckish wit in claiming that multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, and percussionist Michael Zerang will actually glom onto a specific performance from 13 years ago—especially when it was totally spontaneous—but as Lonberg-Holm told me, “Joe likes confusions,” noting that the long-running unit’s last two albums are both called Straylight though they’re different improvised sets made a year apart.…
The description of tonight’s performance on Experimental Sound Studio’s website claims that the astringent free-jazz trio Survival Unit III will play a “re-imagining” of its 2015 album Barrow Street Blues (Holiday), which documents an improvised concert the group gave at the Chicago Cultural Center in 2004. There’s some puckish wit in claiming that multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, and percussionist Michael Zerang will actually glom onto a specific performance from 13 years ago—especially when it was totally spontaneous—but as Lonberg-Holm told me, “Joe likes confusions,” noting that the long-running unit’s last two albums are both called Straylight though they’re different improvised sets made a year apart.…