NEWS!
August 11-14, 2016:
Teaching Creative Jazz & Improvising Guitar Symposium
Presentations
Concert Series
Interview for Guitar Moderne
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Live at the Tranzac Vol 1
Ken Aldcroft - William Parker
Mister, Mister
Solo Ken Aldcroft
Red & Blue
Ken Aldcroft & Scott Thomson
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Ken Aldcroft Presents
Second Wednesday Series
The Tranzac, 10pm
Alaniaris
Third Sunday of the Month
The Tranzac, 3pm
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itunes
Most of Trio Records' catalogue is now available as downloads from itunes
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Here is a poem written by Nicholas Power which was inspired by a set of improvised music performed by me, drummer/percussionist Germaine Liu and bassist Jim Sexton at the LoD Series in Toronto.
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Solo Ken Aldcroft
Ken's solo music, as documented on Vocabulary, makes stylistic reference to several traditions that are key components of his composite sound-world: Especially, classic electric blues, modern jazz, and Derek Bailey-inspired free improvisation. He filters these through two key characteristics that are at the core of his improvising language: Tightly dissonant middle-register chording and a provocative tension between 'speaking style' parlando rubato phrasing (of both single lines and chording) and groove (whether implicit or explicit).
Though working primarily with a relatively clean tone of his electric hollow-body instrument, Ken judiciously exploits the possibilities of distortion and, with various looping and processing devices, can create spidery, multidimensional lattices of sound, as on the Vocabulary track, "Pre-am-ble." All told, Ken's solo music is a clear distillation (or, perhaps, the generative seed) of his entire musical output, and his concerns as a composer and bandleader are drawn logically and fundamentally from his seminal work as an improvising guitarist.
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Recordings:
Contact:
Ken Aldcroft
77 Wychcrest Ave.Toronto, Ontario
M6G 3X8
Canada
416-530-0983
kenaldcroft at yahoo.ca
