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Please join Larry Ochs & The Fictive Five on their first European Tour this coming March. Wildly imaginative stories in sound, by a quintet of veteran improvising musicians: Nate Wooley trumpet; Larry Ochs compositions, tenor and sopranino saxophones; Ken Filiano double bass; Pascal Niggenkemper double bass; Harris Eisenstadt drums.

The Chicago Plan begins a nine-city European tour, performing compositions from the 2017 self-titled debut album, at Martinschlössl in Vienna, Austria on February 8. The quartet stays in Austria for two more concerts, before heading to Germany and Slovenia. The tour concludes with a concert at Area Sismica in Forli, Italy on February 17. We hope you can join them along the way! See below for all of the currently scheduled quartet dates.

The FreeJazzBlog reviewed Steve Swell’s latest releases 'Live in Copenhagen' (featuring his trio with Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love), and 'The Chicago Plan' (together with Gebhard Ullmann, Fred Longberg-Holm and Michael Zerang), giving them 4 stars.

More than 10 years of partnership between American trombonist, composer Steve Swell and German tenor saxophonist, bass clarinetist and composer Gebhard Ullmann after their successful first collaboration, The Ullmann/Swell Quartet featuring bassist Hill Greene and drum legend Barry Altschul continues now with a new version of the quartet featuring renowned Chicagoans, Michael Zerang, drums, percussion and Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello.

Pianist Eve Risser Celebrates the Release of "Des Pas Sur La Neige" (Clean Feed) with a Solo Concert at the AKUT-FESTIVAL in Mainz, Germany, November 20.