Improvised Music Project Festival

April 14: Vu Tet with guests Heatwarmer

Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, 4th Floor (Wallingford), Seattle
Tickets available at the door; suggested donation $5 students, $15 general.

Join Cuong Vu’s internationally acclaimed quartet (with Stomu Takeishi, Ted Poor and Luke Bergman) for a live recording of Vu’s originals along with the group’s interpretations of a set of standards from the American Songbook. Opening for Vu each night will be some of the freshest, most talented, forward looking young artists who comprise IMP. The IMP exists as both an artistic movement and as a student organization and seeks to shape the local music culture by serving as a voice, network, and source for what they refer to as “live, spontaneous music.”

April 15: Vu Tet with guests Bad Luck and Operation ID

Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, 4th Floor (Wallingford), Seattle
Tickets available at the door; suggested donation $5 students, $15 general.

Vu’s quartet teams up with Bad Luck and Operation ID. Bad Luck offers tightly-woven original compositions and is co-led by drummer Chris Icasiano and saxophonist Neil Welch (both UW Music grads). Operation ID plays original compositions influenced by rock, electronica, jazz and modern classical music and features free and group improvisation. Group members are Ivan Arteaga (sax), Jared Borkowski (guitar), David Balatero (bass), Rob Hanlon (keyboard/electronics), and Evan Woodle (drums). Arteaga and Woodle are current Jazz Studies students; Borkowski is a recent graduate.

April 16: Vu Tet with guests Greg Sinibaldi and Goat

Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, 4th Floor (Wallingford), Seattle
Tickets available at the door; suggested donation $5 students, $15 general.

For this concert, Vu Tet meets tenor saxophonist Greg Sinibaldi and Goat, a unique trio that utilizes an arsenal of loops and electronic gadgetry combined with woodwinds, electric guitar, and drumset. In addition to Sinibaldi, the members of Goat are guitarist Zach Stewart and drummer Denali Williams.

April 17: Andrew D’Angelo with UW Jazz Students

Brechemin Auditorium
Brechemin Auditorium is on the east end of the School of Music’s main floor.
Free and open to the public.

The Improvised Music Project presents visionary, critically acclaimed saxophonist/ composer Andrew D’Angelo, a Roosevelt High School alumnus now based in New York City, performing his original works with UW Jazz students. Over his twenty-year plus career, D’Angelo has created a powerful personal language rooted in jazz but incorporating influences from electro-acoustic music, noise, and modern classical music, leading him to critical acclaim as a composer-performer and key roles in bands like Human Feel, the Matt Wilson Quartet, and Tyft.