Ideal Bread (NY) @ An Die Musik–Friday, July 30 8:00 & 9:30pm
by Adam Hopkins on July 28, 2010
Ideal Bread is a Steve Lacy repertory band, and they not only play the music well, they play it with the spirit of Lacy’s bands. For me, Steve Lacy is one of the jazz musicians whose compositions really haven’t received the attention they deserve. As great as his writing is you rarely hear a band play one of his tunes like you’d hear them play a Monk or Miles tune. Hopefully this will change in the coming years, but for now we have Ideal Bread holding it down.
The band is a quartet of Josh Sinton-bari sax; Kirk Knuffke-cornet; Rueben Radding-bass; and Tomas Fujiwara-drums. Unfortunately Reuben Radding can’t make the An Die gig, and I’m honored to have been asked to play. So yours truly will be covering the bass parts for this Baltimore performance. Rueben is a bassist whose work and playing I really admire, so I hope to do it justice. I would be at this show, for sure, if I weren’t playing so don’t take this post as a shameless plug.
Special Offer: If you mention OOYH, you get a discounted ticket for the second set at $10. Cheap! Here’s all the info:
Friday, July 30, 8 & 9:30 pm $ 15 / $ 10 students
IDEAL BREAD Steve Lacy Repertory Band
Josh Sinton, baritone sax
Kirk Knuffke, cornet
Thomas Fujiwara, drums
Adam Hopkins, bass
“The Ideal Bread lays down a serious marker for the posthumous evolution of Steve Lacy’s music.” – Point of Departure. The group’s recent CD “Transmit” has received 4.5 stars in the latest DownBeat magazine!
We are offering a special price of $ 10 for the 9:30 show to the members of the collective.