Exile
Bass and trombone combine to create sonic textures hard to find anywhere else.
Two international masters, American trombonist Christopher Robin Cox and Japanese bassist Akira Ando, will come together to paint upon a blank canvas in real time. These two veteran improvisors first met in the late 1990s when performing together in the Cecil Taylor Orchestra at the San Francisco Jazz Festival. Fast forward thirty years and they played together for the second time in April with the Sürgös Quartet, featuring legendary Philadelphia saxophonist Elliott Levin. Cox and Ando found immediate sonic energy, often drifting off into their own drones and extended tonalities during the performances.