More Information About Roscoe Mitchell and Chicago Quartet

Website

http://hothouse.net/programs/date.jsp?date=2006-09-01

Description

His instrumental expertise includes the entire saxophone family, from the sopranino to the bass saxophone, as well as clarinet, oboe, flute and piccolo. "Roscoe Mitchell's improvisations exercise extraordinary discipline and intellectual rigor, "writes Chris Kelsey, in the All Music Guide. "He's at once a patient and impulsive improviser, prone to alternating episodes of order and chaos, clarity and complexity. He is a technically superb - if idiosyncratic - saxophonist. Whether playing soft or loud, slow or fast, Mitchell's playing is invariably suffused with passion and intensity." An icon of avant-garde jazz, Roscoe Mitchell is a founding member of both the Art Ensemble of Chicago, one of most radical and influential jazz ensembles of the past 30 years, and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, the most successful musician-run collective in the country.

About the Ticket Supplier: HotHouse

The HotHouse Center for International Performance and Exhibition (C.I.P.E.X.) is celebrating its eighteenth year presenting multi-arts events and showcasing high caliber artists from throughout the world. HotHouse believes in the value of progressive cultural programming with a focus on local, national, and international artists whose work would otherwise remain under-recognized and isolated. HotHouse chooses to position themselves at the margin of the mainstream, and seeks to promote the widening of the cultural marketplace in Chicago.