Henry Butler with Steven Bernstein & the Hot 9 Friday, October 23 at 8 pm $36/$30/$24

“Old music made fresh with energy and imagination.” —PopMatters

New Orleans singer/pianist Henry Butler and classic jazz trumpeter/maestro Steven Bernstein share a love for Jelly Roll Morton and Bessie Smith and for injecting personal, modern twists into anything they do. Together, Butler and Bernstein recorded an unbelievably fun and entertaining album, Viper’s Drag, named Jazz Album of the Year by the Chicago Tribune. Blind since birth, Butler tells stories through the swing of his fingers as he channels the sounds of his Louisiana birthplace: jazz, Caribbean, classical, pop, blues, and R&B. Bernstein is called “a musical detective who’s always on the hunt for music that’s been overlooked by classic jazz” (NPR). With Bernstein on valve trombone, the Hot 9 explores early 20th century blues and the Crescent City canon.

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Dorrance Dance “ETM: The Initial Approach”

Thursday, October 29 at 7:30 pm $40/$34/$28

“One of the most accomplished tappers of her generation, acclaimed for her extraordinary technical facility, versatility, and quirky creative imagination.” —Boston Globe

Former STOMP member and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award winner Michelle Dorrance pushes tap in new directions, combining street, club, and experimental dance to the sound of furious rhythms. With ETM (“electronic tap music”), Dorrance teams with 2014 Bessie Award winner Nicholas Young to create a living set that responds sonically to the dancers’ steps. Using tap “instruments” of Young’s original design, the score is not simply danced to, but danced by the company through elaborately choreographed phrases—a footfall can range in sound from a snare drum to a note on an arpeggio. Dance Magazine says the result is “exciting to see and hear as, collectively, the dancers create and build and become an orchestra.”

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