{"id":12542,"date":"2021-08-19T11:40:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T16:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=12542"},"modified":"2021-08-21T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T19:39:08","slug":"jazz-gallery-center-for-the-arts-is-finally-back-with-live-music-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=12542","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts is finally back with live music, this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s more than “mere light” — it’s a luminous light at the end of the long, dark tunnel that we can actually see, hear, and feel. With the Jazz Estate still in a worrisome limbo, the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts will give the Milwaukee jazz and creative music community a gentle jolt — finally offering its first live post-pandemic performance event Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Mere of Light harpist Elyse Leda Fairyland. Courtesy Bandcamp.com<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s an experimental, environmentally-oriented multi-media event: a trio called Mere of Light,<\/strong> <\/span>at 6 p.m. Saturday August 21, at the JGCA, 926 E. Center Street. The slightly outre humility of the group’s name may belie what will unfold, and I can’t attest to much more that this information from the JGCA (I’m working on a couple of other assignments for Shepherd Express<\/em>.) It’s a recording release event for Mere of Light’s new EP, Fell Tales<\/em>, which involves “field recordings and poetic lyricism to draw connections between the current world and fantasy realms.”\u00a0 The music and vision arise significantly from the harpist Elyse Leda Fairyland. It sounds a bit enchanting and very JGCA, which thrives creatively on unpredictable arts activity: <\/span>https:\/\/jazzgallerycenterforarts.org\/events\/2021\/8\/21\/mere-of-light<\/a><\/p>\n

The event, running from 6 to 10 p.m., also includes Annie Grizzle,<\/strong> a multimedia artist interested in “the nonsensical intersection between the mappable and the abstract.” Annie\u2019s work has been featured in X-Peri, Radioactive Moat, Reality Beach, Metatron, and numerous other publications.<\/p>\n

The third performer is C.Vardi,<\/strong> who is working on a “project of processing existential and geological trauma through chiaroscuro drone music.”<\/p>\n

(Adios Amigos?: The previously scheduled JGCA event, “Audios Amigos,” with Brooklyn-based composer-performers Lainie Fefferman<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Jascha Narveson,<\/a> has an unfortunately prescient title, given a slight play on words. The performance, slated for Friday August 20, has been cancelled due to “unforeseen circumstances.”)<\/p>\n

The venue actually got through plague (which is really not over!) on the financial upside, partly due to strong visual arts sales, and a dedicated volunteer board, and strong corporate funding as a non-profit.<\/p>\n

Among the venue’s many excellent visual art exhibits are two which will close on Saturday, Aug. 20th: “Nature Neglected — “Are We Loving it to Death?” and “Imagine It!”<\/p>\n

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An image from the JGCA exhibit “Nature Neglected,” closing Saturday. Photo by Virginia Small.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The first actual jazz event at the storied community-oriented arts venue on Center Street (remember The Milwaukee Jazz Gallery?) will be guitarist-vocalist Don Linke’s Trialog, featuring drummer Victor Campbell and sponsored by the Jazz Foundation of America, at 7 p.m. on Friday Sept 3.<\/p>\n

Then follows the jazz duo of Michigan-based, Coltrane-influenced saxophonist Ben Schmidt-Swartz, with ace Milwaukee drummer Devin Drobka at 7 p.m. Thursday Sept 9.<\/p>\n

It’s a small, relatively intimate venue, so stay mindful, get COVID vaccines, practice heathy social distancing, and masking, when appropriate.<\/p>\n

But believe in our culture, and our nation! Supporting the JGCA is a great way to express your belief.<\/p>\n

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