8:30pm. $15 ADV / $20 DOS
Dustin Laurenzi - saxophone
Katie Ernst - bass/voice
Andrew Green - drums
Chicago trio Twin Talk’s new album title, Delights, is affably tongue-in-cheek, but it’s not wrong. While the title Delights plays on listeners’ expectations for a breezy set of delectable melodies, in actuality the group’s tricky interplay consistently challenges that presumption. But Delights is no misnomer as these 11 tracks never lose a sense of joy as they unfold into the prismatic, intuitive musical conversation that has marked this band’s sound for more than a decade.
Saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi, bassist-singer Katie Ernst, and drummer Andrew Green have spent the last fifteen years making music that has grown ever-more elastic, spontaneous, and open, embracing new inspirations without stifling the improvisational heart of their work. While all three musicians are active members in Chicago’s bustling jazz community, each playing in numerous working bands (Laurenzi tours with singer-songwriter Bill Callahan, Ernst is in the touring band for folk artist Iron & Wine, and Green ubiquitous on the Chicago indie/jazz circuit), they’ve found a true collective voice as Twin Talk. They use live performances as opportunities to stretch—expanding on composed material and ditching set lists in favor of calling tunes on the fly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2HGkHCLhVU
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