FYI - a NW tour-closing Seattle show for this truly great trio - as many of you already know! (Note: this trio will be in Vancouver, BC on Saturday Jan. 11: http://www.zula.ca) = Earshot Jazz Presents = ++++++++++++++++++++ ELLERY ESKELIN ANDREA PARKINS and JIM BLACK ++++++++++++++++++++ = Sunday, Jan. 12, 2003 = Sit & Spin ~ 2219 4th Ave. ~ Seattle, WA / 21+ w/ID ~ http://www.sitandspin.net = 9:00pm ~ $12 = [$10 students/seniors/members] Advance tickets available now via: = Earshot Jazz ~ 206.547.6763 = http://www.earshot.org = Bud's Jazz ~ 1st & Jackson = = Wall of Sound ~ 2nd & Bell = and "online" via: http://www.acteva.com/go/earshot ELLERY ESKELIN, ANDREA PARKINS, and JIM BLACK have defied categorization for nearly a decade. They have a loyal following throughout the world. This WILDLY TALENTED and ACCOMPLISHED trio is on tour in support of its sixth HatHut Records release, 'Twelve (+1) Imaginary Views.' This concert is a RARE OPPORTUNITY for Seattle area music fans to see one of the VERY BEST and MOST UNIQUELY INVENTIVE bands of jazz music's ongoing new wave... Ellery Eskelin - tenor sax http://home.earthlink.net/~eskelin/ Andrea Parkins - accordion, electronic samples http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=B159216 Jim Black - drums http://www.jimblack.com "This is a man who has seemingly taken it upon himself (and conspirators Jim Black and Andrea Parkins) to find the missing link between jazz, rock, electronic music, pop and plain old everyday static...Furthermore, though I took this stuff without so much as a second thought, I would be hard-pressed to say what kind of music they were playing...Best of all, this lack of a label applies to every second of music on the album...Like Monk, his music is often simple on the surface, but repeated listens reveal a marvelously advanced efficiency in the arrangements (as a bass-less trio, this is a plus) and compositions. Fittingly, this group plays the old master's "Oska T" as a virtual encore at the end of the disc." - PitchforkMedia.com reviews 'Twelve (+1) Imaginary Views' other LINKS: http://www.hathut.com/eskelin-content.html ("History of a Band" by Ellery Eskelin) http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eeskelin/lange.html (Art Lange interviews Ellery Eskelin) http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eeskelin/12cadence.html (Cadence reviews "12 + 1 Imaginary Views") "...the Beatles of avant-jazz!" - Guitarist Eugene Chadbourne ==== end of transmission ====