Sunday June 12 * 7pm * MASKS, VAX REQUIRED

(This show was originally going to be at Roda Movements, but has now been moved to Rhizome.)

TRANSPARENT PRODUCTIONS

“Live music is it…nothing will transform you like live music and spirits!” (Henry Threadgill)

25th LIVE MUSIC IS IT!, season

Bassist Michael Bisio - Solo

"The physicality of Mr. Bisio's bass playing puts him in touch with numerous predecessors in the Avant Garde, but his expressive touch is distinctive."
-Nat Chinen, NYT

Sunday June 12, 2022

@7PM @Roda@7014 Westmoreland Avenue, Takoma Park, MD

*****vaccine verification, required*****

Bassist/composer Michael Bisio has been called one of the most virtuosic and imaginative performers on the double bass.

He has over a one hundred thirty recordings in his discography, more than two-dozen as leader or co-leader as well as a dozen more documenting his extraordinary association with piano icon Matthew Shipp.

Bisio has been recognized with the prestigious Artist Trust Fellowship, project grants from various arts organizations, and in 2017 was invited to be Master Artist in Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts. Since 2009, he has been instructor of bass at Bennington College.

He has been a member of the Matthew Shipp Trio since 2009, performing throughout the Americas and Europe, including NY’s Vision Festival, and the Festival Sons D’hiver, in Paris.

Jazz Times describes Bisio as, “a performer who resonates with intelligence, emotional depth and probing virtuosity."

Signal to Noise writes, " Bisio is one of the few musicians who has managed to meld this high concept of physicality with the soulful charge of jazz. His fiddle-high, scraped overtones create a tangled choir that is impossible to resist; his expressiveness with the bow is unmatched."

"Bisio's playing exemplifies the physical and sensory aspects of the bass; it infiltrates the listener beyond the ears. The artist is a working musician who digs down deep to create an air of generous harmonics and a profoundly earthy timbre that compares to Charlie Haden's freest playing. What we have heard from Bisio in recent years is the emergence of a powerful composer and leader.” All About Jazz

Inaugurating Transparent Productions in 1997 in duet with saxophonist Joe McPhee, Bisio released his second solo recording Inimitable (Mung Music), this year, which The New York City Jazz Record describes as “…the best way(s) to hear this remarkable bassist’s artistry.”

This performance is made possible with the support of Jazz Road, a national initiative of South Arts, which is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.