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They, Who Sound & AvantGarden present They, Who Sound: Legendary Drummer Alvin Fielder, Thursday, September 15,  7:00pm - 9:30pm at Avant Garden. Another in a Houston series for experimental sound-making, improvised music, free jazz, underground noise, electro-acoustic performance, psychedelia, improvised dance, and "musique brut."

They, Who Sound and presents . . . . (from Jackson, Mississippi)....Alvin Fielder

• legendary drummer
• member of The Pluma Davis Sextet - house band of ElDorado Ballroom, (Houston, '54-'56)
• member of the Sun Ra Arkerstra (Chicago, '60-'61)
• charter member of the AACM (Chicago, '65 to present)
• co-leader of Improvisational Arts Ensemble with Kidd Jordan (New Orleans, early 70's to present)
• founding role in Louie "Satchmo" Armstrong Jazz Camp (New Orleans, '95 to present)

in quartet with:
David Dove (trombone)
Jason Jackson (saxophone)
Damon Smith (double bass)

Short opening set by Seth Paynter (saxophone) and Abel Cisneros (drums)

A very impressive list of Fielder's collaborators and employers would include: Don Wilkerson, Lowell Fulsom, Amon Milburn, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Sun Ra, Muhal RIchard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, Eddie Harris, Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Fred Anderson, Lester Lashley, John Stubblefield, Jack DeJohnette, Joseph Jarman, Wilbur Ware, Pat Patrick, "Kidd" Jordan, and Dennis Gonzalez.

Info About Alvin Fielder:
http://www.alvinfielder.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Fielder

Great Interview by Clifford Allen:
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=26294