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Free free music (No, that's not a typo)

By TC Daily Planet
September 26, 2009

by Dwight Hobbes | 9/26/09 • Free-wheeling improvisational jazz is safe in the hands of the Minneapolis Free Music Society. It isn't a band so much as it is a music collective consisting of about 25 Twin Cities musicians with organist Jaime Paul Lamb (Northern Cargo) at the hub. Like it says on their Web site, "The instrumentation varies from performance to performance. The Society typically performs in rotating quartet and quintet configurations, though there have been duet and octet performances. The music is never written, rehearsed or otherwise preconceived. The members of the Society play living music that is subject to, and informed by, the immediate environment. There are no soloists, and no accompanists. The music is performed on an intuitive level with a high degree of awareness. Musical ‘conversations' develop within each improvisation."

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As if that isn't enough to whet the appetite of lovers of the avant garde, tomorrow, September 27, MFMS will have devout anarchist and gifted poet Chris Shillock sitting in with them at the Acadia Cafe, orating his work "Invisible Jazz" (it comes, by the way, from the CD by the same name by the band of the same name, which Shillock fronts with vocalist Tabatha Predovich.) The show, which is free, starts at 9 p.m. The address is 329 Cedar Ave. S. on the West Bank in Minneapolis, right across the street from that venerable institution the Hard Times Café.

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