FRIDAY JULY 22

CLINT KRAUS
Organist Kraus, soprano Lisa Cardwell Pontén, and viola da gambist Stephen Swanson play "Baroque Delights." Chapel at St. James Cathedral, 804 Ninth Ave, 382-4874, 8 pm, suggested donation $18/students and seniors pay as able.

SUNDAY JULY 24

SEATTLE REPERTORY JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Dedicated to the preservation of big band jazz, this excellent orchestra of local all-stars serves up hits by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Woody Herman, and others for an "all-city street dance." Garfield Community Center, 2323 E Cherry St, 684-4788, 5–8 pm, free.

TUDOR CHOIR
Peter Phillips, legendary director of the Tallis Scholars, co-leads a concert of English Renaissance music by Tallis, Taverner, and Byrd. Members of the Tallis Scholars augment the group. St. James Cathedral, 804 Ninth Ave, 382-4874, 8 pm, suggested donation $20/students and seniors pay as able.

ELLIOT SHARP
A rare solo show by one of the boldest and noisiest guitarists of our time. Sharp performs on electric and acoustic guitars run through a laptop. He also debuts a new eight-string "electroacoustic guitar bass" designed and built for him by Portland luthier Saul Koll. Not to be missed. Gallery 1412, 1412 18th Ave at E Union St, 322-1533, 8 pm, $5–$15 sliding scale donation.

MONDAY JULY 25

RUINS, DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE
Fresh from a tour of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Germany, the rowdy Degenerate Art Ensemble share a bill with Ruins, a bass and drums duo that machine-guns astoundingly accelerated prog rock. DAE's arsenal includes accordion, percussion, brass kazoo, trumpet, vocals, butoh, and a "cuckoo air-powered piano organ." With guitar saboteur Bill Horist, who plays solo and may join the melee later on. Chop Suey, 1325 E Madison St, 324-8000, 9 pm $10.

WEDNESDAY JULY 27

MATT CRANE QUARTET
Bassist Mike Bisio makes the final rounds before he departs for upstate New York. He teams up with Tom Swafford (violin) and two-thirds of BNSF, Adam Diller (tenor saxophone), and Matt Crane (drums), for oblique tunes by Diller and Thelonious Monk. Gallery 1412, 1412 18th Ave at E Union St, 322-1533, 8 pm, $5–$15 sliding scale donation.

LE VIDE
Named after conceptual artist/composer Yves Klein's ultra-minimal 1958 installation (i.e., an empty room), this monthly series features a reliably eclectic bill. In addition to experimental rock group Factums, Noggin's Eric Ostrowski shows some of his sumptuous hand-painted movies and Gravelvoice guru Scott Colburn presents a "drone film." Before and between acts, DJ William F. Buckley Jr. spins early electronic, avant-classical, and "generally fucked-up noise." Re-bar, 1114 E Howell St, 233-9873, 9 pm, $3.

CROSS-POLLINATION
Avant sound explorers remix artists patrolling better-known musical territory. Portland's "double glitch, ultra noise experience" the Laughing Matter does a live remix of drone rockers Water Moccasin. DJ L.A.M.P. overhauls the jazz fusion of Jam Theory Project. I can dig fusion but by now all musicians should know enough to avoid the ad hoc commercial connotations of a band name that includes "Project." Rendezvous, 2320 Second Ave, 441-5823, 10 pm, $5.