Nick Rudd Music Experience & Improvisers Exchange present a series of programs on music improvisation featuring New England-based guitarist Joe Morris, widely recognized as one of the most original and important improvising artists of our time.
Morris will offer a lecture at 4p and performance at 7:30p on Wednesday, October 6, and a workshop at 3p on Friday, October 8, 2021.
A duo performance at Humanities Research Institute with Chicago-based cellist Tomeka Reid will follow the lecture that evening in a special double bill with a San Francisco Bay Area duo featuring Larry Ochs (saxophone) & Don Robinson (drums).
The two groups featured as part of the annual Nick Rudd Music Experience will offer listeners an opportunity to hear distinct directions in Free Music, along with a first-time collaboration among all four players, illustrating in performance aspects of Morris’ earlier lecture.
Both groups are represented on recent releases, Morris / Reid’s “Combinations” on RogueArt (2020), and Ochs / Robinson’s second issue “A Civil Right” on ESP-Disk’ (2021).
Please note we are following COVID-19 protocols of the University of Illinois requiring that masks be worn throughout each program.
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This program was made possible by the Nick Rudd Music Fund. Initiated by Rudd’s surviving wife Gina Manola and stepson Townes Durbin with a goal of the fund reaching endowment levels ensuring this series becomes established as an ongoing and permanent part of the music culture of our campus and community. To make a contribution please contact David Allen at the School of Music. allend[at]illinois.edu
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Research Institute and Improvisers Exchange.