Upcoming: Robots on Fire + The Bletchley Bombes, Kozmik Zoo, Jan 31

Tuesday Jan 31: Kozmik Zoo, 53 West Broadway (3 blocks west of Kingsgate Mall)

Door 8:30 pm / $7

Robots On Fire is about taking musical traditions, blowing them up, and playing the pieces – including the tradition of taking the tradition, blowing it up, and playing the pieces. The Robots have been featured at Open Space (Victoria), the Art Gallery of Calgary, and more recently at Vancouver’s Powell Street Festival, and have also appeared at Vancouver Jazz Fest shadow shows backing up Han Bennink, Eugene Chadbourne, and Mats Gustafsson. With a new-ish lineup and an all-original new set, the Robots will take over Kozmik Zoo, blow it up, and put it back together again using the awesome power of music.* With Dave Chokroun, bass; John Mutter, guitar; Kevin Romain, drums; Jonathon Wilcke, alto sax; Darren Williams, tenor sax.

The Bletchley Bombes play the music of iconoclastic jazz composers such as Thelonious Monk, Grachan Moncur III, Eric Dolphy, and Steve Lacy. This quintet performs with a focus on the spontaneous and the unexpected; bucking some of the common practices of jazz performance. The Bombes are led by baritone saxophonist/bass clarinetist Shane Krause, and features trumpeter Eric Weiden, tenor saxophonist Dominic Conway, drummer Ben Brown and guest bassist Tommy Babin.

http://www.myspace.com/thebletchleybombes

http://thekozmikzoo.wordpress.com/

* No we won’t.