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Derrick Michaels Presents The Honor System at An Die Musik Live
Courtesy of Erin Connelly | Posted on June 28, 2019
Where
An Die Musik Live
409 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD
Map
410-385-2638
When
Wed, July 17, 2019
8:00 pm
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Musicians
About
Derrick Michaels-tenor saxophone
Brandon Woody-trumpet
David Diongue-alto saxophone
Alex Weber-bass
Jaron Lamar Davis-drums
Derrick Michaels is a Baltimore-based tenor saxophonist | composer | educator, and an inexorable force in the creative music community. Boasting a rich, expressive tone and a propensity for dynamic performance, Michaels harnesses the primordial impulse to create - bringing a kaleidoscopic process of melodic architecture to a myriad of egalitarian improvisational ensembles.
Michaels communicates with vitality, romanticism, and reckless abandon - enveloping listeners into the process of his music as it unfolds into the present moment. His deeply personal approach to performance & instruction favors expressive nuance over idiomatic reverence, invoking the rich expressive history of the tenor saxophone while refracting it through his own prism of creative purpose. Each performance both demonstrates & defies his strong roots in jazz by plunging unapologetically into the unknown. ...