1st half: Solo pieces for alto saxophone performed by Michael Attias from composers Anthony Coleman, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and Russ Lossing.
2nd half: Trio music for Renky. John Hebert: bass, Satoshi Takeishi: percussion, Michael Attias: alto saxophone
New York City-based saxophonist/composer Michael Attias was born in Haifa, Israel in 1968. Concerts in clubs and festivals throughout the US, Europe, and the Middle East have brought him together with musicians such as Anthony Coleman, Ellery Eskelin, Marty Ehrlich, Mark Helias, Oliver Lake, Mat Maneri, Jim Pugliese, Tom Rainey, Herb Robertson, Han Bennink, Jean-Jacques Avenel, and many others. Projects Attias is involved in include Clinamen with Tony Malaby, Matt Moran, Mark Taylor, and Tyshawn Sorey in addition to the members of renku, and A.C.T.ion! With Sean Conly and Take Toriyama.
Bassist and composer John Hebert was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he studied privately with Bill Huntington, and performed with Steve Masakowski, Tony Dagradi and Johnny Vidacovich. Since then, he has worked alongside jazz musicians Maria Schneider, Greg Osby, Gary Thomas, Brian Blade, Gene Jackson, and Rick Margitza, as well as New York musicians Jeannie Bryson, Garry Dial, Uri Caine, Steve Cardenas, Tony Malaby, Matt Wilson, Tom Rainey, and Jeff Hirshfield. John has toured extensively in Europe and Iceland.
Drummer, percussionist and arranger Satoshi Takeishi is a native of Mito, Japan. Takeishi’s projects include “Macumbia,” with composer/arranger Francisco Zumaque in Colombia, and study and performance in the Middle East with Armenian-American oud master Joe Zeytoonian. With Zumaque, he performed a program honoring popular Colombian composer Lucho Bermudes with the Bogota symphony orchestra. In New York, Takeishi has performed with Ray Barretto, Carlos “Patato” Valdes, Eliane Elias, Dave Douglas, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony Braxton, and others.