TIM BERNE / AURORA NEALAND / CHES SMITH / MARK HELIAS

Since first working with Julius Hemphill in the ’70s, TIM BERNE has built an expansive discography as a leader. He has worked with a who’s who of improvisers, including Joey Baron, Django Bates, Jim Black, Nels Cline. Mark Dresser, Marc Ducret Dave King, Herb Robertson, Chris Speed, Steve Swell, Bobby Previte, Hank Roberts, Tom Rainey and Craig Taborn. New Orleans composer, improviser and multi-instrumentalist  AURORA NEALAND will be mostly playing accordion and they  will be joined by drummer CHES SMITH and bassist MARK HELIAS

“Few musicians working in or around jazz over the last 30 years have developed an idiomatic signature more distinctive than Tim Berne.”  NY Times