BlueStem Jazz presents Gerrit Hatcher and Erez Dessel
Gerrit Hatcher and Erez Dessel present a new project rooted in the tradition but looking ahead, never bound by aesthetics and deeply grounded by an improvisatory practice that spans space and time. Their duo music includes free improvisation as well as compositions: original, repertory, lesser-known and traditional.
Gerrit Hatcher (USA 1991) is a Chicago-based tenor saxophonist, improviser, and composer. Hatcher’s work typically engages with free jazz as a craft and set of practices that is as much historical as it is experimental. Gerrit has been involved in several working groups and other ensembles, based in Chicago and beyond. Without enumerating all of them, these have included collaborations with fellow Chicagoans Tyler Damon, Lia Kohl, Sam Wagster, Andrew Scott Young, Julian Kirshner, Paul Giallorenzo, Dave Rempis, Kent Kessler, Bill Harris, Eli Winter, Joshua Abrams, Peter Maunu, Katie Ernst, Ben Lamar Gay, Keefe Jackson, Marvin Tate and Mars Williams.
Erez Dessel (USA 1998) is an improvising pianist and composer. After graduating from the New England Conservatory, Dessel moved to Savannah, GA, where he served as music director at the Savannah Music Festival Jazz Academy, Savannah’s first free after-school youth jazz program. He also kept up an active performing career in the Southeast, including presenting an hour-long improvised work for piano, pastel, and paper at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center. Since moving to Chicago he has worked continuously both as a performer and organizer, recording in an array of contexts with many internationally renowned musicians (including Ken Vandermark, Tim Daisy, Kim Alpert, and Ben Hall).
This event is BYOB.
Presented by BlueStem Jazz:
https://bluestemjazz.org/
and Audio for the Arts:
https://audioforthearts.com/
