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Peter Brötzmann / Nasheet Waits Duo

Presented by Ars Nova Workshop at Philadelphia Art Alliance

May 8, 2009

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Brötzmann / Waits Duo with Peter Brötzmann, alto & tenor saxophones/clarinet/tarogato Nasheet Waits, drums ''The pairing of German saxophone titan Peter Brötzmann and American drummer Nasheet Waits isn't an obvious one. They're both adventurous musicians who play deeply in the jazz tradition - but that gentle vacuity aside, Brötzmann is a fire-breathing free improviser whose work is usually measured in volume and intensity, while Waits has been associated with some of the most cerebral and subtle pianists around - Fred Hersch, Andrew Hill, and Jason Moran. Well, drop any assumptions based on associations (and maybe recall that subtle pianists can embrace tumultuous drummers - e.g. witness the special affinity between Bill Evans and Philly Joe Jones), for Brötzmann and Waits are an extraordinary duo, able to vindicate an instrumental pairing that can run quickly to bombast. The two invoke some of the best reed-drum dialogues I've heard, like the signal meetings of Coltrane and Rashied Ali (Interstellar Space) and Jimmy Lyons and Andrew Cyrille (Burnt Offerings). Waits plays in the same polyrhythmic tradition as Ali and Cyrille (directly from the Joneses - Philly Joe and Elvin), and he creates a constantly shifting field, rolling and roiling around the kit with a consistent and internally cool barrage of great density and subtlety, accents shifting and flying off.'' -Stuart Broomer, Signal To Noise