Concerts 67, 68 & 69

December 30, 2012: #67 – Oswald/Thomson/Stewart

• John Oswald – saxophone
• Scott Thomson – trombone
• Jesse Stewart – drums

January 13th, 2013: #68 – Tena Palmer & Bob Vespaziani (rescheduled)

• Tena Palmer – voice
• Bob Vespaziani – drums/percussion

This concert was originally scheduled for the 6th, but has been rescheduled for the 13th (due to illness).

January 27th, 2013: #69 – Accordion Conspiracy

• David Broscoe – saxophones, winds
• Bernard Stepien – accordion

Accordion Conspiracy is an extension of Bernard Stepien and David Broscoe late ‘90s pure saxophones project then called Breaths. Saxophonist David Broscoe is a master in multi-phonics. Accordion happened to be Bernard Stepien`s first instrument initially in a classical and folkloric music context. Back in the ‘60s, Stepien heard Ornette Coleman and started to play in his harmolodic music style. After switching to saxophones, Stepien neglected Jazz accordion for a few decades but the emergence of French accordionist Richard Galliano and pianist Andrea Parker accordion experiments slowly restored his interest in the accordion. In 2001, Stepien had the immense privilege to study with the great master Cecil Taylor and learn how to play with sounds rather than notes. The button accordion is actually the ideal instrument for producing sounds because it enables to cover large spans of notes and produce unusual harmonies with little efforts compared to a piano. Stepien plays a Hohner Morino accordion from the late ‘50s that has an additional quality to produce unusual sounds in that it has a left hand that is identical to the right hand and thus enables the same capabilities as a piano. Accordion Conspiracy really started as a result of the IMOO Orchestra in 2012 where Stepien was invited to play accordion. Thus, Stepien’s accordion music is in a way the result of peer pressure…