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| Improv with influences ranging from blues to classical, jazz standards to rock. Bassist Ken Haebich and saxophonist Jim Gailloreto, backed by a shifting variety of great Chicago talent, including drummers Kalyan Pathak, Larry Beers, and Tim Mulvenna, keyboardist Jim Baker, pianist Fred Simon, "Word Jazz" poet Ken Nordine, guitarist Fareed Haque, vocalist Kurt Elling, soprano Winfred Brown, flamenco dancer Corina LaJazzmin, and even Northwestern's Mee-ow comedy troupe, improvising dialogue for a bad '50s horror movie while Haebich and Gailloreto improvised the score. Chicago Reader critic Neil Tesser calls it "...the closest thing to a 'happening' since such events proliferated on the coasts in the 60's." Nordine says "They have that playful kind of openness and invention. Many musicians are locked in a cell of tradition, playing the same thing over and over again ad nauseum. Ken and Jim have a vision. They are a brave duo."
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