Rabble Without A Cause
Wednesday November 25th, 2020 with Bernard Stepien
saxophonist Ellery Eskelin

Born in post-Bop, Eskelin soon embarked on free form music. Some critics call his music as taxing on the listener as on the players. Obviously, his musical ideas are complex but retain some smoothness that come from his post-Bop era and the fact that his tenor saxophone sound is relatively old fashioned. Tonight, we will survey a Clean Feed CD with a different band than the usual Andrea Parkins and Jim Black configuration, this time with Susan Alcorn on pedal steel guitar and Michael Formanek on bass. This, all means no drums…