Jonathan Moritz/Mike Pride SUMMERTIME - Outdoor Performance Album Release

FEATURING Jonathan Mortiz – tenor and soprano saxophones Mike Pride – drums, glockenspiel, marimba, autoharp, tenor saxophone Experience their music live outdoors at Saratoga Arts! Jonathan Moritz and Mike Pride have been close collaborators for more than two decades and share a deep love for experimentation and free improvisation. Some of their notable past and current collaborations are Evil Eye (quartet with Nate Wooley and Ken Filiano), Secret Tempo Trio (trio with Shayna Dulberger), Mike Pride’s From Bacteria to Boys (quartet/quintet led by Mike Pride), and various projects led by Chris Welcome. Their second duo release, SUMMERTIME (Neither / Nor Records 2024) is a truly unique amalgam of avant-garde jazz, lo-fi, sound collage, improv, field recording, with a touch of psychedelic production.  The music is at once expansive, multifarious and deeply intimate. Much of the album was recorded outside. In Jonathan Moritz’s words: “The record is all improvised sax and drums duets that we recorded organically in 2020 and 2021 over weekends in Mike’s back yard, studio and near a stream during our family vacation in Maine. The laugher and screaming of our children, the stream gurgling, the splashes of rocks were not added afterwords but in the background during the recordings, an ode to our daily life. I feel this record is a culmination of our improvised, joyful adventures together.” ARTIST BIOS: photo credit: Peter Gannushkin Mike Pride Based out of New York City since 2000, Mike Pride currently performs solo, leads jazz quartet From Bacteria To Boys, the 7-drummer installation Drummer’s Corpse, the piano trio I Hate Work and his newest compositional workshop band, Tributary Trio. He is also co-leader the ensembles Pulverize The Sound (w/ Peter Evans and Tim Dahl), Three-Layer Cake (w/ Mike Watt & Brandon Seabrook) and Location Location Location (w/ Michael Formanek & Anthony Pirog). Pride is renowned for his ability to excel in a wide range of genres and ensembles. He has worked with everyone from improvised music icon Anthony Braxton to punk legends Millions Of Dead Cops, toured extensively on four continents, appeared on more than 150 recordings, and toured arenas worldwide opening for comedian Amy Schumer with Jason Stein’s Locksmith Isidore. A short list of his collaborators includes Mick Barr, Tim Berne, Boredoms, Jaimie Branch Trio, Eugene Chadbourne, Nels Cline, Andrew D’Angelo, Trevor Dunn, Dynamite Club, Moppa Elliot, Charles Gayle, Milford Graves, Mary Halvorson, Curtis Hasselbring, Nona Hendryx, Jon Irabagon, Brad Jones, Haino Keiji, Kirk Knuffke, George Lewis, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Frank Lowe, Bill McHenry, Tony Malaby, Sam Mickens, Butch Morris, Joe Morris, William Parker, Marc Ribot, Matana Roberts, Herb Robertson, Jamie Saft, Sonny Simmons, Craig Wedren, Nate Wooley, Jack Wright, Katherine Young’s Pretty Monsters, Otomo Yoshihide and John Zorn. Pride’s versatility doesn’t end with his eclectic résumé as a popular sideman and leader/co-leader of many active ensembles spanning the worlds of modern-jazz, avant-rock, noise and death free jazz. He is also a busy educator and clinician, a composer for TV shows, video games, podcasts and websites, and an experienced visual artist. photo credit: Peter Gannushkin Jonathan Moritz is a saxophonist and composer working in free improvisation and jazz basedin Brooklyn, NY. He pursued jazz saxophone studies at the RoyalConservatory of Brussels in Belgium, earned a BFA at the California Instituteof the Arts and a masters in music education from Brooklyn College. Movingto New York City he became a frequent collaborator with fellow improvisingmusicians, including Sean Ali, Carlo Costa, Shayna Dulberger, Ken Filiano,James Ilgenfritz, John McLellan, Mike Pride, Steve Swell, Chris Welcome, andNate Wooley. Currently, Moritz is involved in various projects, such as Secret Tempo, his trio as a leader and composer, a duo collaboration with drummer Mike Pride, and is also a member of the collaborative improvising trio Moritz / Ali / Costa with Sean Ali and Carlo Costa. Since 2004, Moritz has hosted the Prospect Series, an intimate Brooklyn house concert featuring innovative improvisers.

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