Jazz Funk Fest

with Gerry Fialka, Rex Butters, Freddy Ginns, and Eric Ahlberg.

At 7:30 pm, BLACK SHOE POLISH. Within the free collective BSP, words that should never be said collide with notes that should never be played. Fiery poetic painter Rex Butters slaps sense into words through multi-dimensional discourse. Clifford Novey & Gerry Fialka combine fantastical funky fretwork with keyboards amid a cauldron of controlled chaos, creating ink-stained improvisational interplay. Spoken Word and Free Improvisation as it was ever-never meant to be, BLACK SHOE POLISH reconvenes the Inconceivable with righteous rascality. 

At 8:15pm: FREDDY GINNS & ZEBRA PARTY provide original witty lyrics to their jazzy blues ala Mose Allisonand Detroit funk keyboardist Lyman Woodard. 

At 9pm: Lyrical multi-instrumentalist ERIC AHLBERG'S JAZZ WORKSHOP recalls the explorations of Public Enemy, Hank Williams, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, George Carlin and John Coltrane with tasty world beat tangents. (What?! You didn't know George Carlin played jazz?)

"To funk is only peternatural its daring feers divine. Bebold!" -Finnegans Wake by James Joyce 

Chief Confabulist and Party Responsible for this melange of sonic and verbal mischief is the redoubtable GERRY FIALKA. The gods of music, mirth and literary mayhem are looking for him. For more on this miscreant please see www.laughtears.com