Catch Continuuum Saturday at the Cafe

Posted by admin on Mar 21, 2012

New jazz quar­tet at Acoustic Cafe

Aric Curry: Poet with a message

Sat­ur­day evening, March 24^th, promises to be a show­stop­per at the Acoustic Spo­ken­Word Cafe. Head­ing the lineup is the rel­a­tively new jazz ensem­ble fea­tur­ing sax-man Quincy Sanders.

Con­tin­u­uum played its first gig in early Decem­ber 2011 at the Dash-In, in down­town Fort Wayne. The mem­bers of Con­tin­u­uum have per­formed together in other music projects around town and have played in var­i­ous funk, reg­gae, gospel, blues, rock, and jazz groups. The group—Quincy Sanders on sax, Jesse West on pic­colo bass, Bryan Nel­lums drums, and Marco Rubio bass—performs ren­di­tions of tra­di­tional jazz as well as it’s own com­po­si­tions, tak­ing care to blend in their own new pro­gres­sive ideas.

One of the unique qual­i­ties about Con­tin­u­uum is that it fea­tures two bassists; Marco Rubio and Jesse West han­dle the bass busi­ness. Jesse West plays the pic­colo bass that’s tuned an octave above Marco Rubio’s tra­di­tional bass. West started explor­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties of using the pic­colo bass as a solo instru­ment with the inten­tion of hav­ing it replace the role of jazz guitar.

Con­tin­u­uum per­forms a wide range of jazz styles, and have per­formed at the Dash-in, Deer Park, pri­vate par­ties, and around Indi­anapo­lis. Continuuum’s next free per­for­mance is in Deer Park, at Deer Park Pub, on April 6th. You can check­out Continuuum’s per­for­mance sched­ule online on Face­book (search con­tin­u­uum spelled with the let­ter U 3 times).

But before that gig, catch the quar­tet live at the Acoustic Spo­ken­Word Cafe, 501 E. Brack­en­ridge Street, at Downtown’s most artist-friendly venue.

Poet Aric Curry will take the sec­ond half of the evening fill­ing it with his adept word­flows. Aric is a high school stu­dent who comes from a tal­ented fam­ily of word­smiths. The young poet cut his teeth at Weisser Park Com­mu­nity Cen­ter with the SBA Acad­emy. Come see this young man with a mes­sage, and bring your own for the Open Mic that fol­lows the sec­ond set.

Cafe hours are from 7-10PM, and admis­sion is only $5.oo. The first cup of cof­fee is on the house, and dona­tions are accepted for all other drinks and snacks.

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