Jazz at Holmes: Streams of Extremity II

Musicians to include: Ptah Williams, William Lenihan, Steve Davis, Amy Greenhalgh and Marcia Mann
Improvisation and the languages of Stravinsky, Bartok, Stockhausen, Miles Davis and beyond.

The evening features a return of the quintet led by William Lenihan and Ptah Williams which includes piano, guitars, bass, drums, violin, viola and violoncello performing improvised music based in pieces of Stravinsky, Bartók, Stockhausen, Miles Davis and Chick Corea. The quintet employs the dynamics of jazz improvisation with the early modernist languages of composers whose music has played an important part in the development of modern jazz.