8pm – Timucin Sahin Quartet
Timucin Sahin: 7 string fretless & 6 string fretted guitars& compositions & live electronics
Jeff Davis: Drums, Cory Smythe: Piano, Greg Chudzik: Bass
9pm – Outhead
Alex Weiss: Saxophones, Josh Sinton: Saxophones, Dmitry Ishenko: Bass, Derc Dickens: Drums
New York’s contemporary music scene is incomparably vast in scope, perhaps impossible to cover with a single series. With this residency at The Firehouse Space, Dan Blake brings together a range of collaborations that at least begins to represent the diversity of experiences and musical styles in music. Now in its second season, this seventh concert will feature a compelling double bill!
Timucin Sahin has been recognized as one of today’s truly unique voices of contemporary jazz music by publications such as San Francisco Bay Guardian, AllaboutJazz, Jazzwise, Downbeat and Jazz-Times as well as by many others. His unique sound on fretless electric guitar and his emotional content in his composing made him non-comparable and his music almost impossible to categorize. Both his compositions and his playing on his double-neck guitar – his trademark – radiate an incomparable individualism. His music is drawn from a wide body of knowledge and experience, often developed from his considerable skills as a guitarist. He employs improvisation but in ways hard to separate from the sound of his notated music.
Outhead – the quartet of alto/tenor saxophonist Alex Weiss and baritone saxist Josh Sinton with double – bassist Dmitry Ishenko and drummer Derc Dickens – pursues a low-slung, roughhewn aesthetic that’s equal parts free-jazz and art-punk, brimming over with vim and vigor. Outhead’s second album – Send This Sound to the King, to be released on July TK, 2014, via Chahatatadra Music – juxtaposes catchy melody and swinging grooves, headlong caterwaul and dreamy spoken word. The sly humor and sheer accessibility of Send This Sound to the King makes Outhead akin to John Lurie’s iconic downtown New York band the Lounge Lizards, while rock fans may even hear echoes of the baritone-driven, post-Beat stylings of vintage indie-rock trio Morphine at times. Yet for all its hip influences and antecedents, Outhead is above all an individualist outfit, playing music that isn’t quite like anything else out there.
