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Tim Berne's Snakeoil at Jimmy Mak's
Courtesy of ECM records | Posted on May 1, 2015
Where
Jimmy Mak's
221 N. W. 10th
Portland, OR
Map
503-295-6542
When
Tue, May 5, 2015
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Tim Berne
saxophone, altoOscar Noriega
clarinetChes Smith
drumsMatt Mitchell
pianoRyan Ferreira
guitarAbout
SNAKEOIL
“Few musicians working in or around jazz over the last 30 years have developed an idiomatic signature more distinctive than Tim Berne.”
— Nate Chinen, The New York Times
Tim Berne’s third ECM album, You’ve Been Watching Me, sees the saxophonist-composer again leading his ultra-dynamic New York band Snakeoil, but with the quartet now a quintet with the arrival of guitarist Ryan Ferreira, whose sound adds textural allure.
The group’s 2013 release, Shadow Man, garnered Berne some of the highest praise of his career as a composer and bandleader, with JazzTimes marveling over how his work grows “wilder and deeper.” The four-star DownBeat review said: “This music rocks and thinks, explores, deconstructs and, yes, it swings, in its own identifiably angular, Berne-ian way.”...