Tickets available at the door $20. Doors 7 / Music 8
Sarah Hennies DJs
The Ghost was formed by saxophonist Michael Foster as both a tribute to his disparate influences in free jazz, harsh noise, and the gay underground community, and as a middle finger to the suffocating heteronormative establishment of improvised music. Their new CD "Vanished Pleasures" stands as a new direction for this project, utilizing overt compositional frameworks to convey the anxieties of aging, sexual freedom, and the power relations inherent in the sax-bass-drums format. The band features John Moran on bass and Joey Sullivan on drums, both of whom are also in Philadelphia trio Bark Culture. For this special concert, The Ghost are joined by Poughkeepsie legend Joe McPhee, a multi-instrumentalist whose first appearance on record was cut the day after John Coltrane's funeral and whose work and sound are still evolving 57 years later.