Complacency Presents May 10th 2024

Permutations:
duos, trios, and quintet improvisations
With Jim Baker (piano, Viola, ARP), Jeb Bishop (trombone, electronics), Daniel Burke (Bass VI, Piano, Synth), Jeff Goulet (Guitar, Sticks), Thymme Jones (Trumpet, Piano, sticks)

Jim Baker
has been playing in and around town and elsewhere for decades, mostly on piano and ARP synthesizer—and mostly as an improviser, teaming with Fred Anderson, Ken Vandermark, Michael Zerang, Mars Williams, Brian Sandstrom, Steve Hunt, Edward Wilkerson, Jr., David Boykin, Rob Mazurek, Guillermo Gregorio, Nicole Mitchell, Tortoise, Fed Lonberg-Holm and many others. For a number of years in the 90s, Baker was the house pianist for the weekly Sunday evening jam sessions at the Velvet Lounge. For most of the last fifteen years, he has been playing most Mondays at Beat Kitchen with free-improvisation group Extraordinary Popular Delusions.
https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/jim-baker

Jeb Bishop
has performed, toured and recorded with groups including the Vandermark Five, the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls, Fred Lonberg-Holm’s Terminal Four, School Days, Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra, Globe Unity Orchestra, The Engines, and his own Jeb Bishop Trio and Quartet. He also co-led the Lucky 7s project with New Orleans-based trombonist Jeff Albert, and is a member of the Boston-based cooperative quintet Cutout.
https://www.jebbishop.com/

Daniel Burke
has been playing with sound since the early 80’s as Illusion of Safety releasing over 40 full length recordings and performing over 300 concerts worldwide. He is currently working in a rotating trio improv format with drummer Erik Sowa (+Jeb Bishop, Cory Bengtsen, and/or Jeffrey Goulet), recording & performing in a synthesizer context as Soundoferror, in an ambient project as Twilight Furniture, and in singer-songwriter mode as Daniel James Burke. He has also collaborated in composition, live performance, or recorded with Jim O’Rourke, Darin Gray, Kevin Drumm, Jeb Bishop, Jon Mueller, & Olivia Block, et. al. He has also collaborated in ensemble groups CHEER-ACCIDENT, Tertium Quid (w/Bill Horist & Dave Abramson), and Total Sound (w/Chris Block).
https://linktr.ee/danieljamesburke

Jeff Goulet
Experimental Guitarist and Drummer. Improvisor and Composer. Currently a member of Lovely Little Girls (Skin Graft), Taste Rubber (Already Dead Tapes), and Larvavision.
https://jeffgoulet.bandcamp.com

Thymme Jones
was born. Barely. He continued on. Somewhat. Still around. More or less. While still in high school, pianist Thymme Jones was browsing the racks at a Hallmark greeting card store when he noticed a category of greeting cards labeled “CHEER-ACCIDENT.” Since then, six lineups have passed through Jones’ band Cheer-Accident, and it has endured the loss of one of its members. The group, which plays pop songs with off-kilter chord progressions, has released numerous albums and a handful of singles for labels such as Complacency, Pravda, Skin Graft, and, in 2009, Cuneiform.
https://www.cheer-accident.com/