Featuring Jerome Kitzke, Steve Rust, and Harvey Sorgen

Friday, April 5, 2024
8:00pm Doors 7:45pm

Holy Trinity Church Inwood (FIRST CONCERT HERE!)
20 Cumming Street, New York, NY 10034

Minimum Suggested Donation of $20. Pay online or at the door.

Enjoy a community concert of beat poetry and jazz improvisation performed by Big Tent. All are welcome!
They are not a political party, but given all the different musical points of view brought to bear by these three veteran improvisers, a delicious Big Tent in sound is created when drummer/percussionist Harvey Sorgen, bassist Steve Rust and pianist/vocalist Jerome Kitzke come together. The resulting music is possessed of raw energy or delicate filigree and everything in between, all delivered with a passionate verve rooted in broad deep emotions that are served beautifully by the prodigious technique each player possesses. Electric twists and turns abound in these pieces that sound at once spontaneous and composed. The use of poetry brings a tight formal cohesion to some of the cuts, so when you hear Kitzke reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s I Am Waiting with intermittent ringing piano chords over a stanza by stanza ranging bass line by Rust, joined at just the right moment by Sorgen’s insistent snare and kick drum cadence, you know you are not hearing your average improv band. When they are ferocious, the roar is also quirky and when they are tender, the tears that form will most likely come with a smile. Big Tent: endorsing bipartisan listening since 1998.