What's Going On: The Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble

About this event

Doors: 6:30pm Show: 7:30pm

Tickets: By donation and open to the public

Advance tickets can only be purchased online-we do not sell advance tickets at the venue. Refunds are not available within 48 hours of the event. Tickets do not guarantee seating during shows at the Royal Room.

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Seating for non-diners is first come, first served. Please arrive early to guarantee a seat!

The Royal Room is All Ages until 10pm.

“What’s Going On: Conduction, Improvisation and the Culture of Structure.”

The Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble

November 20 and 21.

The Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble was created in 2012 by composer Wayne Horvitz and has performed regularly on Monday nights at The Royal Room since that time. The ensemble spent a week in residency at The Stone in NYC in 2014. In 2015 “At the Reception” was released on the Songlines label to excellent reception and rave reviews.

RRCME looks, and sometimes sounds, like a traditional jazz orchestra with 6 brass, 5 reeds and rhythm section. The repertoire ranges from what might be described as jazz to the avant-garde, experimental and new music. “Conduction’, the improvised conducting technique first created by Lawrence “Butch” Morris, is utilized freely throughout.

This November, RRCME will perform on 2 dates as part of the “What’s Going On” festival.

Both evenings will be live recording sessions.

What’s Going On: Conduction, Improvisation, and the Culture of Structure” is produced by The South Hudson Music Project with support from the Raynier Foundation, 4Culture, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, Earshot Jazz and Nonsequiter.

“.seemingly coached along by someone untethered to form, a sponge for inspiration and recreation, a spirit unabashedly unwilling to stop. The main thing, I guess, is that there's nobody else out there I hear even attempting to cover some kind of similar range and do it so convincingly.”

– John Ephland, All About Jazz

“Mr. Horvitz kept his attention on the band with microscopic focus, quick-cutting between contrasts, putting something free or rippling against a fixity. It held your attention, and when it was perverse, it was just perverse enough.”

– Ben Ratliff, New York Times

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