Stirrup+6

The genre-defying trio Stirrup grow their ranks threefold on The Avondale Addition with the inclusion of six satellite musicians from across the jazz, experimental, and improvising spectrum to fill out, color in, scratch, and smear Stirrup's arrangements on the fly as conducted by Lonberg-Holm and his Lightbox.

The Avondale Addition is an amalgam of two of Fred Lonberg-Holm’s long-running projects: Stirrup, a genre defying trio who formed in Chicago in 2009 and his “Lightbox Orchestra”, a revolving-door project that began over 20 years ago as a way to organize and ‘conduct’ large, ad-hoc improvising ensembles using a light-based cueing system and cue cards. Typically, a Lightbox concert has no pre-composed materials, but for this performance recorded live at Elastic Arts in Chicago, compositions by members of Stirrup comprised a “book” from which the guest musicians (the “+6”) draw on in addition to freely improvising when called on to do so. In effect, Charles and Nick continue to do things they might normally do on a Stirrup gig, but instead of Fred playing cello, he acts as a kind of improvising arranger stationed behind his Lightbox cueing station, with the invited guests taking on the melodic and soloist roles he might normally perform.

PERSONNEL:

• STIRRUP:
• FRED LONBERG-HOLM, lightbox operator
• NICK MACRI, bass
• CHARLES RUMBACK, drums

• +6 :
• JEN CLARE PAULSON, viola
• ZOOTS HOUSTON, electronics
• KEEFE JACKSON, reeds
• RUSS JOHNSON, trumpet
• PETER MANU, guitar, violin
• MARS WILLIAMS, reeds

Recorded live at Elastic Arts, Chicago, June 15, 2017

TRACKS:

• 01. Song for Salim
• 02. Salt Lines
• 03. Floating Melody
• 04. Insen for Yonsei
• 05. Little Spots
• 06. Rodney's Last Ride
• 07. Domi's Dream