Stephan Crump's Rosetta Trio
Fifteen years into their collaboration, this trio is still finding inventive ways to intertwine instrumentally in compelling and unexpected arrangements. On their new release, Outliers, tracks like the title composition feature Liberty Ellman’s acoustic guitar and Jamie Fox’s electric snaking around one another while Crump’s acoustic bass provides a steady, almost percussive presence.
press release: On Sunday, September 22, 2019, at 8pm, Rosetta Trio will perform all original music at Arts + Literature Laboratory. Tickets are $15 in advance (https://rosettatrio.brownpapertickets.com) and $20 at the door. Student tickets $5 off with a valid school ID. Advance ticket sales end 1 hour before the show. Doors open at 7:30pm.
Best known for his dynamic founding role in the Grammy-nominated Vijay Iyer Trio, Memphis-bred, Brooklynite bassist/composer Stephan Crump leads his own uniquely colorful and hard-grooving all-string Rosetta Trio, featuring guitarists Liberty Ellman and Jamie Fox. Hailed as “a string ensemble for the new century” by All About Jazz, the group formed in 2005 to record an album of pieces written in the aftermath of 9/11. That album, Rosetta, was greeted with inclusion on multiple top ten lists and ecstatic reviews for its narrative depth and outstanding performances. Their second release, Reclamation (2010), “ingenious originals” ( The New Yorker ), “bareness in emotion” ( NPR ), was much more than a follow-up effort, though it was the earlier album that gave the trio its name and its mission: to inhabit the dynamic and rhythmic flexibility of a drumless ensemble and embrace its challenges and expanded responsibilities; to reject restrictions of genre; to explore different territories of feel, texture, color; to groove. With Thwirl (2013) “a declaration of increased proportions, a culmination of superior interplay, chemistry, delicacy and vision” ( Downbeat ), the group revealed a new telepathy. Rosetta Trio, whose members have for years collaborated with many of the leading lights in the New York creative music scene, has developed into a formidable unit, sensitively and powerfully rendering Crump’s often profound, sometimes playful and always honest music.
ALSO: Wiesn In A Box, the traveling Oktoberfest experience, will be stopping in Madison this weekend. Join us at ArtLitLab Saturday, September 21, 2-7pm, and Sunday, September 22, 6-9pm, for beer and pretzels. Supported by the Goethe-Institut, they’ve combined Bauhaus style architecture with the latest Bavarian beats to bring Americans coast to coast a truly unique Oktoberfest experience.
Wiesn In A Box will be on site before three events: The Lowest Pair at Art Lit Lab on Saturday at 3pm, The 19th Amendment Reading on Saturday at 7pm, and Stephan Crump's Rosetta Trio at Art Lit Lab on Sunday at 8pm.
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The Goethe-Institut USA (German Cultural Center), in cooperation and collaboration with
Hofbräuhaus America, presents “Wiesn in a Box”. Three attractively designed trailers will
stop at various venues across the US throughout the course of one year to stage unique
Oktoberfest events. Each trailer is furnished with an oven for baking pretzels and a two keg
draft beer system serving Hofbräu beer. The project is financed with funds from the
“Deutschlandjahr” campaign, (“Wunderbar Together” – Year of German-American friendship
2018/2019) a joint project financed by the German Federal Foreign Office, the Federation of
German Industries (BDI), and the Goethe-Institut with the goal of enhancing the cultural
dialogue between Germany and the United States.
Find out more on our website: www.goethe.de/wiesn