[NewMusicEvents] David Slusser & Ralph Carney @ Climate Tues 4/15

[David Slusser]

(We're delighted to be working with John Hanes and Steve Clarke on  
this.)

This Tuesday, April 15th

The Music Box series at the Climate Theater presents

David Slusser & Rubber City with Ralph Carney  -  9 pm

Clarke (solo acoustic guitarist Steve Clarke)  -  8 pm

Climate Theater
285 9th St (at Folsom)
$10 - 15 sliding scale
www.climatetheater.com
415-263-0830

Rubber City plays and improvises on melodic jazz compositions.

David Slusser - sax, flute, compositions
Ralph Carney - sax and any number of miscellaneous instruments
Richard Saunders - acoustic bass
John Hanes - drums and percussion

Clarke is the nom de guerre used by Steve Clarke for his solo acoustic
guitar recording "Roots n' Hubris" (http://cdbaby.com/cd/clarkemusic).
He was part of the art rock band Arkansas Man, and played with Ralph
Carney and David Slusser in the seminal idiomatic improv group Pluto.
They will be revisiting that by collaborating on each others sets.

Trouble In Tiretown review from All Music Guide
by Scott Yanow
David Slusser wrote all ten selections for this CD, utilizing an  
instrumentation that hints at the Ornette Coleman Quartet  
(substituting a second reed for Don Cherry's cornet) while adding a  
healthy dose of his wit and hints at earlier styles of jazz.  
"Jazzdeath," which is full of obvious song quotes and clichés, sounds  
as if the musicians are trying to kill jazz or at least satirize the  
hard bop revival of the 1980s, while other songs sometimes manage to  
be both inside and outside at the same time. The interaction between  
Slusser (who alternates between tenor, soprano, and bass clarinet)  
and Ralph Carney (alto and clarinet) is colorful and accessible even  
when at its most explorative, and more complex than it sounds when  
their music borders on Dixieland and circus music. Bassist Richard  
Saunders and drummer Chris Ackerman are subtle and stimulating, while  
guitarist Robert Zucker is an asset on the two songs on which he  
performs. All of the concise originals have stories behind them  
outlined in Slusser's well-written liner notes. There is no lack of  
spirit and joy to these performances; highly recommended.

Delight at the End of the Tunnel review from All Music Guide
by Nitsuh Abebe
David Slusser's work history ranges from collaborations with John  
Zorn to music editing for Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, and  
co-composing with David Lynch. Delight... demonstrates why -- Slusser  
has a sense of cinematic composition and sound collage that is simply  
amazing. "Kubrick" is a wide-screen tone-poem that (like all of  
Slusser's work) goes beyond any sense of "experimentalism" into  
something concrete and fully realized, while "Dragon" accompanies the  
sound of the Chinese language with cymbals, bells, and bowed metallic  
objects to create sounds that capture the entire image and sense of  
the dragon in eastern mythology. Other tracks assemble resonances and  
decays of piano tones into concrete compositions that are as  
beautiful as they are simply fascinating. An excellent collection  
that makes your average "experimentalist" seem completely misguided.