Jon Raskin Link to home page : Jon Raskin  Biography: Jon Raskin has been a member of Rova Saxophone Quartet for the last 28 years exploring the relationship of improvisation and composition, developing and honing the language of ensemble music and researching linguistic possibilities of the saxophone. He has performed and/ or recorded with Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith, Sam Rivers, Tim Berne, Phillip Johnston, Leo Smith and Henry Kaiser. Currents CD's include Let's go Totally Spinning, Rova Saxophone Quartet (Black Saint), Music + One(Rastascan), Kaolithic Music, Jaw Harp Music recorded in a 587 Gallon Vase(Evander Music) and The Bass & the Bird Pond,Jon Raskin/Tim Berne Quartet(New World). He is also working with a new Quartet (JR Quartet) with Liz Allbee, George Cremaschi and Gino Robair that features new compositions for improvisers by Jon Raskin using graphic scores.
Phillip Greenlief and Jon Raskin have been presenting the 2 + 2 Series at the 1 Grand Performance Gallery where they invite two musicians that play similar instruments to join them performing improvisations and compositions. J
Work-In-Progress: New CD JR Quartet, 2+2 Series.
Email: sopranino@sbcglobal.netUpcoming Events: Community Music Center 544 Capp Street
Btwn 20th and 21st
SFFriday, Oct 1 2010 8:00 PM Wrack + Rova: On Procedural Grounds
Local improvising oboist and composer/performer Kyle Bruckmann will premiere an extended work for Rova in collaboration with his long-running quintet Wrack.
Kyle Bruckmann’s creative work spans a dizzying range, from a traditional Western classical foundation into genre-bending gray areas encompassing free jazz, electronic music and post-punk rock. International touring and appearances on more than 50 recordings have led to his recognition as "a modern day renaissance musician" and "a seasoned improviser with impressive extended technique and peculiar artistic flair."
Since moving to the Bay Area in 2003, he has performed with the San Francisco Symphony and ensembles throughout the region, joined forces with Quinteto Latino and new music collective sfSound, and become firmly enmeshed in the local improvised music community. From 1996 until his westward relocation, he had been a fixture in Chicago's thriving experimental music underground, with frequent collaborators including Jim Baker, Jeb Bishop, Olivia Block, Guillermo Gregorio, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Robbie Hunsinger, Ernst Karel, and Michael Zerang. Long-term affiliations include the electro-acoustic duo EKG and the "rock" monstrosity Lozenge.
Bruckmann’s Wrack project was founded in 2002 with the explicit intent of blurring distinctions between compositional and improvisational procedures, creative and interpretative mindsets, Afro-American and Euro-American experimental traditions. It is equally a book of compositions, an unconventional chamber ensemble, and an aesthetic philosophy entangling the methodologies of contemporary jazz and classical modernism. The debut record on Red Toucan (2003) demonstrated an "ability to combine turned-up flame with clear-headed attention to texture and space" (Dusted Magazine). The follow-up album on 482 Music, Intents & Purposes (2006), was recognized as “music made by artists unafraid of genre constraints” (All About Jazz) and "dazzling proof that intricately arranged, angular modern jazz can be accessible and enjoyable" (Wire).
“With this project, I am excited by and grateful for the opportunity to bring together beloved musicians from multiple chapters of my life. I can cite a 1993 Rova performance I witnessed while an undergraduate conservatory student in Houston as a seminal experience, instrumental in launching me onto the creative path I’ve pursued ever since. It will be a joy and a great honor to work with them now as colleagues.” -KB
These concerts are made possible in part thanks to the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music’s Musical Grant Program, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the W & F Hewlett Foundation, and Subito, the quick advancement grant program of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the the American Composers Forum.
$12; $8 student/senior
CDs on which Jon Raskin appears:
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