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Dear Friend,
What: 3 sets of improvisational music
When: Monday September 29th, 2025 Doors open at 7 pm
Where: fidget space, 1714 N. Mascher St., Phila
($10-20 suggested donation)
Free Improv at fidget!
Come out and listen to 3 sets of prime Philadelphia free improv:
Henry Allen/Jonah Gelbart - guitar and trumpet
Philadelphia based musicians Henry Allen and Jonah Gelbart have been playing freely improvised music as a duo for the last several years. Henry Allen is a guitarist whose playing incorporates experimental punk ideas with rapidly evolving and abrasive harmonic textures. Jonah Gelbart plays various trumpets and shofar, combining his training in classical and jazz with a personal experimental language. They prefer a playful approach to music-making that emphasizes social interaction over directly aesthetical considerations.
Lance Simmons - percussion
Lance Howard Simmons is a self-taught percussionist and multi-disciplinary artist from the North American South residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His other notable musical endeavors include The Playful Bunch, Slack, Mirror Men, and Unguent." https://refulgentsepulchre.bandcamp.com/album/fractal-discharge
Jack Wright/Ben Wright - bass and alto saxophone
Jack Wright is a veteran saxophone improviser based mainly in Philadelphia, regularly touring North America and Europe the past four decades and well known to improvisers. Continually seeking out interesting partners and playing situations, Wright is one of the originals of American free improv, and now at 81 he is still the "Johnny Appleseed of Free Improvisation," as the late Davey Williams (guitarist) called him in the 80s.
Ben Wright from Dixon, New Mexico plays double bass. He cut his teeth in Philadelphia punk rock, and has since been working the double bass for 30 odd years, bolstered by intense spats of incidental formal training. A lover of the lowest frequencies, Ben has explored many disparate forms of music through the bass, yet always returns to the wellspring of improvisation.
You can reserve an advanced ticket for $20 with the button below, or pay a recommended $10-$20 at the door.
Donations to Fidget are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. You can also mail a check to Fidget, 1714 North Mascher St, Philadelphia PA 19122.
