Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway, and Marilyn Crispell in Concert

Real Art Ways Presents:

Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway, & Marilyn Crispell
In Concert!

Friday, July 7 | 7:30pm
Free Admission!

HARTFORD, CONN. On Friday, July 7 at 7:30pm, three renowned musicians - bassist Mark Dresser, percussionist Gerry Hemingway, and pianist Marilyn Crispell will perform a concert at Real Art Ways. Admission is free. Funding for this performance is provided by the Evelyn Preston Fund. Real Art Ways is located at 56 Arbor Street in Hartford.

“Mr. Dresser, a bassist who is one of the great instrumental forces in recent American jazz outside of the mainstream.” – New York Times

"Gerry Hemingway's Music is consistently fascinating and intriguing." - All Music

“Marilyn Crispell….has been one of the most deliciously unpredictable and distinctive piano improvisers in jazz for more than four decades.” – The Chicago Reader

Mark Dresser is a Grammy nominated, internationally renowned bass player, improviser, composer, and interdisciplinary collaborator. He has recorded over one hundred forty CDs including three solo CDs and a DVD. From 1985 to 1994, he was a member of Anthony Braxton’s Quartet, which recorded nine CDs and was the subject of Graham Locke’s book Forces in Motion (Da Capo). He has also performed and recorded music of Ray Anderson, Jane Ira Bloom, Tim Berne, Anthony Davis, Dave Douglas, Osvaldo Golijov, Gerry Hemingway, Bob Ostertag, Joe Lovano, Roger Reynolds, Henry Threadgill, Dawn Upshaw, John Zorn. Dresser most recent and internationally acclaimed new music for jazz quintet, Nourishments (2013) his latest CD (Clean Feed) marks his re-immersion as a bandleader. Since 2007 he has been deeply involved in telematic music performance and education. He was awarded a 2015 Shifting Foundation Award and 2015 Doris Duke Impact Award. He is Professor of Music at University of California, San Diego. For more information on Mark Dresser, please visit his website.

Gerry Hemingway is an American drummer and composer. Hemingway was a member of the Anthony Braxton quartet from 1983 to 1994. He has also performed with Ernst Reijseger, Anthony Davis, Earl Howard, Leo Smith, George E. Lewis, Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, Reggie Workman, Michael Moore, Oliver Lake, Marilyn Crispell, Christy Doran, John Wolf Brennan, Don Byron, Cecil Taylor, and Cuong Vu.

Hemingway received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in music composition in 2000, and was a student of Alan Dawson. He is a graduate of Foote School in New Haven. He has recorded on over one hundred albums for the labels Clean Feed, Enja, hatArt, Palmetto, Random Acoustics, and Tzadik. He owns his own label, Auricle. For more information on Gerry Hemingway, please visit his website.

Marilyn Crispell has been a composer and performer of contemporary improvised music since 1978. For ten years, she was a member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet and the Reggie Workman Ensemble, and she has performed and recorded extensively as a soloist and with players on the American and international jazz scene, also working with dancers, poets, film-makers and visual ar tists, and teaching workshops in improvisation. She has been the recipient of three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust composition commission. For more information on Marilyn Crispell, click here.

This free concert is made possible through the generous support of the Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Trust Fund, Bank of America, N. A., Trustee.

Established in 1978, The Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Fund provides grants for music concerts during the summer for the general public in the City of Hartford. Real Art Ways has been the recipient of Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Fund for more than 40 years.