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- Date: Friday, May 30, 2008
- Time: 8pm
- Location: Toy Eaters Studio - 143 Christopher Columbus Dr, Jersey City
- Cost: $12; $10 students/seniors at door
“Home Field Advantage - Experimental Jazz in Jersey City” will present Jersey City-based musicians performing cutting-edge improvised music in their hometown every Friday in May. The festival is organized by Jersey City resident and musician James Keepnews.
Nate Wooley — with Chris Speed on tenor saxophone and clarinet, Reuben Radding on bass and JC resident Harris Eisenstadt on drums
“Local trumpet ace Nate Wooley (is) one of the few cats who is working hard at redefining the vocabulary and sound of the trumpet.” — Bruce Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
Nate Wooley grew up in a small fishing town in Oregon. He grew up in his father’s big band, beginning his professional career at age 13. After a period of study, Nate landed in Jersey City. He has made a name for himself as a sideman, working with such improvisors as Paul Lytton, Anthony Braxton, John Butcher, Steve Beresford, Joe Morris, and Daniel Levin. His experimentation on the trumpet has led to him being labeled “exquisitely hostile” by the Italian magazine, Touching Extremes. His solo work, acoustic and with unprocessed amplification, has led him to work in fields left and right of the jazz world as well, with bands such as Akron/Family, Wolf Eyes, Burning Star Core, and David Grubbs. The quartet will perform pieces of Nate’s worked to a wonderful frayed edge over the past 5 years.
The group, featuring two of the leading lights of the Brooklyn/downtown scene, Reuben Radding and Harris Eisenstadt (a JC resident who participated in last year’s “HFA” festival), welcomes special guest Chris Speed tonight for a reading of this music as well as some of Nate’s new Christian Wolff inspired “exercises”.
