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The Creative Music Guild and Mississippi Studios present celebrated avant-jazz trio Brötzmann / Parker / Drake with locals Not Bitter opening. Peter Brötzmann, Hamid Drake, William Parker began performing together in 1995. In 2003 The All Music Guide called the band "one of the leading ventures in the history of avant-garde jazz." After a ten year hiatus the band is back on the road; May 12 at Mississippi Studios is its first ever Portland concert. The Creative Music Guild is a Portland, Oregon all-volunteer, non-profit organization whose mission is to promote experimental, improvised music by presenting concerts, workshops and other events that bring together internationally recognized musicians with local performers, audiences and music students of all ages. For over twenty years, the CMG has been a leader in cultivating Portland’s experimental and improvised music.
Confluence, our visiting artist series, is where the CMG started back in 1991 with bringing the best improvisers in the world to Portland.