“How can I let people understand what happens to a person, to a family, a community as a result of gun violence? It took me a long time to be able to gather all of the things I needed to make that happen.”Ĭunningham tells that story through a combination of music, recorded conversations and spoken recitations on The Weather Up There (Northern Spy). “It was always something that was in the back of my mind: How can I write something that would honor my brother,” Cunningham said. Cunningham experienced shock, horror and sorrow at the news-but also a determination to respond. 5, 2008, when his brother, Andrew, was murdered during a home invasion and robbery in Cincinnati. He was finishing a rigorous program at the University of Cincinnati’s conservatory and had plans to enroll at the Manhattan School of Music. (Photo: Connor Lane)Ībout 12 years ago, drummer Jeremy Cunningham had plenty of reasons to feel that his life was going great. $15 adv/ $20 at the door (advance sales until 3pm day of show, then available at the door).Drummer Jeremy Cunningham enlisted Jeff Parker, Jaimie Branch, Makaya McCraven and others to play on his new album. The resulting tracks are the product of years-long collaborators expanding their deep chemistry. On A Better Ghost, there’s a euphoric melding of Chicago and LA’s jazz worlds present with features from prolific saxophonist Josh Johnson, legendary drummer Jay Bellerose, and Cunningham’s Resavoir bandmate and leader, trumpeter Will Miller. At a certain point it was a no-brainer to expand the duo to a trio” says Laurenzi. “Paul really understood the vision of our music and added so much to what we’d already recorded. Adding bass parts and a producer’s ear to these songs, Bryan’s vital contributions were the missing link. While Cunningham and Laurenzi have collaborated this way for years, they decided to add Los Angeles based musician Paul Bryan, the Grammy-winning producer, engineer, and bassist (Jeff Parker, Aimee Mann, Lucinda Williams) who co-produced Cunningham’s Northern Spy debut 2019 LP The Weather Up There to finish these pieces. With Laurenzi creating sequences and samples on the OP-1 synthesizer while on the road with Bon Iver, and Cunningham developing drum parts and melodic fragments, the two began finding a distinct direction to take the work, sharpening and editing these snippets into cohesive compositions. Their new album A Better Ghost finds them in collaboration with Los Angeles-based bassist/producer Paul Bryan, and is the product of phone-recorded improvisations and experiments dating back to 2017. There's a real driving at dusk past corn fields atmosphere, pulsed forward by a steady rhythm section." - Lars Gotrich, NPR Music - Jeremy Cunningham - drums, percussion Dustin Laurenzi - saxophone, OP-1, electronics Paul Bryan - electric bass, synth Drummer Jeremy Cunningham and saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi have been near-inseparable collaborators for years, working in countless groups together across Chicago’s vibrant jazz community. The quartet dwell from a place of immediacy and intention, reaching mesmerizing altitudes through precise creative communication." - Breaking & Entering "The jazz quartet compositions are tight, yet allow enough space for Trim's fuzz-driven guitar to sprawl. Backed by a brand new rhythm section that developed material with Trim on a monthly gig in Milwaukee and contributions from Chicago keyboardist and Daniel Van Deurm, Trim brings his new group on the road to share the music from new instrumental album Retroreflector "A flurry of ensnaring rhythms and lively psychedelia. Midwestern guitarist Andrew Trim spent the last decade working primarily as a leader of his Chicago based avant jazz groups Hanami (Charles Rumback, Jason Stein, Mai Sugimoto) and Dim Lighting (Devin Drobka, Kurt Schweitz) and as a sideman with a variety of other midwest groups including The Aluminum Group, Ted Sirota’s Heavyweight Dub, Rock Falls and Lady Cannon.
Swirling group improvisations explore haunting, timeless musical landscapes with peak immediacy.
Doors at 6pm, showtime 7pm Andrew Trim - guitar Daniel Van Deurm - wurlitzer, synths Barry Paul Clark - electric bass Nick Lang - drums Soaring melodies and psychedelic jazz flurries of electric guitar guide a sonically charged quartet grounded firmly in the Chicago sound. $15 adv/ $20 at the door (advance sales until 3pm day of show, then available at the door).
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