Trummerflora presents
Other Ideas at Kava Gallery

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Jason Robinson (saxophone) and Terrence McManus (guitar)

Sunday July 12, 2009

7pm | $5-10 sliding scale | all ages

Kava Gallery

2804 Kettner Blvd

San Diego, CA 92101



Trummerflora’s “Other Ideas at Kava Gallery” presents a concert by saxophonist Jason Robinson and New York guitarist Terrence McManus


                  San Diego, Calif. — The Trummerflora Collective and Kava Gallery present a rare appearance by two acclaimed American improvisers, saxophonist Jason Robinson and guitarist Terrence McManus.  The all ages concert begins at 7pm on Sunday July 12, 2009, at Kava Gallery in the Midtown area of San Diego (2804 Kettner Blvd, San Diego, CA, 92101).  The event is part of Trummerflora’s “Other Ideas” monthly concert series, now in 6th year.  Described by Bill Milkowski of JazzTimes as “a potent improviser…[with] thoughtful writing and bold instincts,” Robinson will perform set of compositions and improvisations from his recent album Cerberus Rising (Circumvention/2009).  A highly active member of New York’s experimental music scene, McManus will also perform a solo set and then join Robinson for a first time performance as a duo.

American saxophonist and scholar Jason Robinson is a Visiting Professor of Music at Amherst College in Western Massachusetts.  A long time resident of San Diego (1998-2008), Robinson performers internationally as a soloist (acoustically and with electronics), with groups he co-leads (Cosmologic and the Cross Border Trio), as a leader of varying ensembles performing his original music, and in a variety of collaborative contexts. His latest albums include his fourth release as a leader—Cerberus Rising (2009/Circumvention)—and the fourth release by Cosmologic, Eyes in the Back of My Head (2008/Cuneiform). He has performed at festivals and prominent venues in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe with a broad spectrum of acclaimed musicians, including Peter Kowald, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, Eugene Chadbourne, Earl Howard, Emily Hay, Jeff Kaiser, Toots and the Maytals, Groundation, Elijah Emanuel and the Revelations, Bertram Turetzky, Mark Dresser, John Russell, Roger Turner, Gerry Hemingway, Kei Akagi, Mel Graves, Liberty Ellman, Babatunde Olatunji, Mel Martin, Marco Eneidi, Lisle Ellis, Raphe Malik, Mike Wofford, Philip Gelb, J.D. Parran, Dana Reason, David Borgo, Nathan Hubbard, Michael Dessen, Contemporary Jazz Orchestra (at Pearl's, San Francisco), the La Jolla Symphony, SONOR (UCSD), and the San Francisco Mime Troupe, among others.

Described by Kermit Driscoll as “onto something new,” Brooklyn born Terrence McManus grew up in New Jersey and Connecticut. He has performed with Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Ellery Eskelin, Herb Robertson, Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway, Anthony Cox, Kermit Driscoll, Gene Bertoncini, Russ Lossing, Marty Eurlick, Matt Maneri, and Michael Sarin. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, the New York Guitar Festival, Ellis Island, and the inaugural month at John Zorn's The Stone. Terrence is a member of the Gerry Hemingway Quintet, the Kermit Driscoll Group, the Herb Robertson Ensemble, and the Hemingway/McManus duo. He leads several of his own projects, including the chamber ensemble The Dream of the Ants, with Ellery Eskelin and Gerry Hemingway, which recently premiered a new sixty minute, multi-sectional, through-composed work entitled, The Machine. Terrence's solo improvisations were featured in the New York City debut of the Fermin Cabal play Disappeared(Tejas Verdes). In 2006 Terrence formed Flattened Planet, a record label dedicated to the promotion of new, creative, and improvised music. In 2008 Terrence was featured in the book, State of the Axe: Guitar Master's in Photographs and Words, by legendary photographer Ralph Gibson. The book, published on Yale University Press, was produced in conjunction with The Museum of Fine Arts, in Houston, TX, where the book's images were on exhibition. Terrence has taught at William Paterson University, the University of Nebraska, and The New School in New York City.

For more information contact Jason Robinson at 858/204-8859 or jason@jasonrobinson.com. Additional information may also be found at www.trummerflora.com, www.jasonrobinson.com, and http://www.myspace.com/terrencemcmanus.



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