Sun 4/26 @ 8PM
Bassist/guitarist/composer Toby Summerfield is yet another widely traveled musician in the field of improvisational music that spans genre. His bio says “He’s most at home in complicated rock bands and free improvised situations — and especially loves when both can happen.” Like most such musicians, his collaborations have been wide ranging, taking him through the fertile scenes in Ann Arbor and Chicago.
He’s also passed through Cleveland where he reconnected with improvising sax player Aj Kluth, who is now on the musicology faculty at Case Western Reserve University. They’ve put together a set of music to perform in a concert presented by the Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project (CUSP). It includes two noted Cleveland-based jazz musicians: trumpet player Garrett Folger who has performed with the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and Sammy DeLeon’s Latin Jazz Ensemble among others and with a group of his own co-led by drummer Carmen Castaldi and pianist Anthony Fuoco; and Castaldi, one of the veterans of the area jazz scene, who was born and raised in Cleveland and decamped to New York and Los Angeles for decades before returning home in the 90s.
It takes place at the former Convivium 33 on the edge of AsiaTown. Admission is $15 but no one is turned away for lack of funds — and you are welcome to give more to support the work CUSP does in presenting cutting-edge experimental musicians and ensembles.