aug 5th Ben Rough and Erika Werry

http://www.myspace.com/benrough  http://www.erikawerry.com/

aug 12 Jay Baird and Dany Laj

www.myspace.com/danylaj

aug 19 Polyester Heart and friends

www.polyesterheart.com
aug 26 Kim Barlow and Ryan Driver

www.myspace.com/kimbarlow  www.myspace.com/ryandriver

All shows are pay what you can

The Tranzac welcomes Brad Sucks from Ottawa to the Main Hall on August 7th.  You can find out more at http://www.bradsucks.net/ Also on the bill is Bellevue.  http://www.bellevuemusic.ca/

Tuesday, April 20th, 7:30pm
Tuesday, June 22nd, 10pm
Tusday, August 17th, 10pm

Ken Aldcroft’s Convergence Ensemble are:

Ken Aldcroft – guitar
Evan Shaw – alto saxophone
Nicole Rampersaud – trumpet
Scott Thomson – trombone
Wes Neal – bass
Joe Sorbara – drums

This six-piece group, featuring the instrumentation of a fairly conventional modern jazz ensemble, is the primary conduit for Ken Aldcroft’s compositional and conceptual work. In performance, a set list serves less as a road map for the execution of Ken’s varied and dynamic pieces and more like a menu of possibilities; the group’s members can, individually or collectively, spontaneously arrange any of the available material. Employing a system of aural and gestural cues, the group playfully and creatively reshapes each piece in the spirit of free improvisation, the approach that underpins the ensemble’s composite musical experience.

The current personnel of the Convergence Ensemble is the result of the amalgamation of various Aldcroft ensembles of and, with numerous recordings and national tours under their collective belt, the sextet is a thoroughly cohesive musical unit. Each player is as dynamic a soloist on his or her instrument as they come, not only in Toronto’s lively creative music scene, but Canada-wide as well

“Aldcroft’s music seems to be pitched somewhere between Mingus and Braxton.”  -Robert Iannapollo, Cadence Oct/Nov/Dec 2009

“This tight knit group (The Convergence Ensemble) read each others’ minds, knowing when to join the fray, when to sit on the sidelines, when to ratchet up the intensity and when to cool the proceedings down.”
Bryon Hayes, Exclaim-online November 2009

www.kenaldcroft.com
www.myspace.com/kenaldcroft

Hound’s Tooth play Bluegrass, every Thursday at 7:30 in the Southern Cross Lounge

No Cover/PWYC