Paul Giallorenzo, Mikel Avery & Ingebrigt Haker Flaten
media release: BlueStem Jazz
Originally from Long Island, NY, Paul Giallorenzo is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, producer, and sound designer using piano, synthesizer, keyboards, and electronics in a diverse range of contexts with a wide array of Chicago and international musicians in improvised, avant-jazz, experimental, and electro/acoustic music, performing regularly locally and throughout North America and Europe.
Giallorenzo’s work has been praised for its “inside-out” nature – his ability to push the boundaries of “conventional” jazz toward more freedom but also, on the other side, to bring a measure of structure to more avant-garde material. Writing in the online journal Point Of Departure, John Litweiler said, “His solos and aggressive duets are gems of after-Bop, after-Bley melody,” while AllAboutJazz.org lauded music that “smudges the lines between the tradition and the avant-garde.”
Giallorenzo is the Artistic Director of the intermedia arts organization Homeroom and a co-founder and programmer of the music venue/art gallery Elastic Arts, producing hundreds of creative music concerts and art events in Chicago since 2001.
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten is an award-winning Norwegian bassist, improviser, composer, and bandleader who has been at the forefront of modern creative music both in his native Norway and internationally since the early 1990s. Perhaps best known as a founding member of the Scandinavian supergroup Atomic, Håker Flaten has merged post-free jazz explorations and experimentation with skillful use of attributes from many other idioms in countless collaborations, bands, and projects. His many musical collaborations have taken him to many corners of the world, and in 2006 he moved from Norway to the USA, initially to Chicago and later to Austin, until returning to Norway in 2020.
Along with Atomic, he leads US-based groups like the genre-busting Young Mothers and Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Chicago Sextet, and plays in groups like Icepick, I.P.A., and Dave Rempis Percussion Quartet. He was previously a core member of the powerjazz trio The Thing with Nilssen-Love and Mats Gustafsson, as well as Free Fall.
Isaiah Spencer is a jazz and blues drummer who, with his edgy style and innovative beats, has carved out a unique reputation in Chicago and beyond. Critics have called his sound propulsive, fiery, and incendiary.
Spencer has studied with Dr. Curtis Prince in Chicago’s All-City Jazz Band, with Dana Hall and Ernie Adams in the Ravinia Jazz in the Schools program, at Roosevelt University, and with legendary jazz educator Ronald Carter at Gallery 37, a paid summer job teaching the arts to youth. He has also studied with Ralph Peterson Jr., Kenny Washington, Greg Hutchinson, Ed Soph, Hamid Drake, Albert "Tootie" Heath, and Wilbur Campbell.
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