From the Sep 2 – Sep 8, 2004 issue

Music

Concerts

by Christopher DeLaurenti

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2



DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE

The DAE fuse jazz, punk, noise, and general sonic anarchy with butoh-inspired movement. They're teaming up with globetrotting butoh dancers Kaseki and Shinichi Koga for exploratory improvisations and a low-tech reading of their current work Ame to Ame ("Candy to Rain"). On the Boards Studio Theater, 100 W Roy St, 217-9888, 8 pm, donation requested.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 3



CHRIS MANN

Here's my nominee for sleeper gig of the week: This NYC-based Australian sound poet performs The Plato Songs using a live computer system that chops his speech into tiny phonemes and scatters them around the room in an eight-speaker array. Chris Mann's texts have been deconstructed, interpreted, and set by John Cage, Gary Hill, Robert Rauschenberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and other heavy cats, so if you plan to avoid the Bumbershoot crowds, this is the gig for you. Jack Straw Productions, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, 634-0919, 8 pm, free.

BUMBERSHOOT

The NW Court Stage remains the locus of jazz at Bumbershoot. I recommend the Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio (Fri Sept 3 at 8 pm and Sat Sept 4 at 2:15 pm), Combustion Collective (Fri Sept 3, 6 pm), PK & What Army? (Sat Sept 4, 6:30 pm), the Victor Noriega Trio (Sun Sept 5, 2 pm), and Matt Jorgensen + 451 (Mon Sept 6, 4 pm). Seattle Center, 628-0888, various times, $25-$55.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 7



McCOY TYNER

Immortal for his contributions to the music of John Coltrane (including A Love Supreme), pianist McCoy Tyner's distinctive style remains muscular and bluesy. And golly, the sparkling runs and authoritatively swinging block chords are still there too. Along with drummer Eric Harland and bassist Charnett Moffett, legendary vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson joins the fray. Hutcherson's almost-avant Blue Note LP Dialogue remains an underappreciated classic. (Also Wed Sept 8 at 8 pm, Thurs-Sat Sept 9-11 with sets at 8 pm and 10 pm, and Sun Sept 12 with sets at 6:30 pm and 8:45 pm.) Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave, 441-9729, 8 pm, $24.50/$28.50.

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 8



ADAM DILLER

One-third of noise-barrage trio BNSF, Humph (an eccentric Thelonious Monk tribute trio), and doublends vert, reedman Adam Diller discusses recent compositions for small ensemble. Menacingly described in the press release as "experiments in social structures that grew from a fascination with the possibilities for manipulation of human behavior," my bet is that these pieces reflect Diller's traits as a composer and improviser: mostly bracing, usually brave, and sometimes damnably frustrating. Jack Straw Productions, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, 634-0919, 7:30 pm, free.

SIL2K

In what will likely be the last installment of the long-running Cognitive Dissidents series at Coffee Messiah, SIL2K Ensemble perform MetaGame, a retrospective collage of 11 classic game pieces (whose ancestors include John Zorn's COBRA and Iannis Xenakis' Stratégie for two orchestras) performed by this eclectic ensemble over the last five years written by Stuart McLeod and Carl Farrow. Coffee Messiah, 1554 E Olive Way, 861-8233, 8 pm, free.

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