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Hatcher, Gerrit: Burnt Pan Rolling Boil (Kettle Hole Records)

Chicago saxophonist Gerrit Hatcher sees his solo saxophone performances as a format that can be both charismatic and alienating in to the listener, as he uses extreme technique and powerful streams of emotional playing in a set of improvisations: "Salt Dome" parts 1-3, and "Cooking Fuel", each wrought with frailty and bluster; impressive work.
 

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UPC: 888295903578

Label: Kettle Hole Records
Catalog ID: KTHL001
Squidco Product Code: 27862

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2019
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded At Bel_Air Sound Studio, on March 29th, 2019, by Todd Carter.

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Chicago saxophonist Gerrit Hatcher sees his solo saxophone performances as a format that can be both charismatic and alienating in the extreme to the listener, as he uses extreme technique and powerful streams of emotional playing in a set of improvisations, "Salt Dome" parts 1-3, and "Cooking Fuel", each wrought with frailty and bluster; impressive work.


Artist Biographies

"Gerrit Hatcher is a Chicago-based tenor saxophonist, improviser, and composer. Born in Boston and raised in Normal, Illinois, Hatcher grew up studying trombone, and switched to tenor saxophone at 20 while attending the University of Illinois. Hatcher graduated from UIUC in 2013 and received a Masters in Arts and Politics at Sciences Po the following year. He moved to Chicago in 2015, and, inspired by Chicago's rich improvising music scene, soon began to make music with Chicago musicians, forging new improvising collaborations, and leading ensembles of his own.

Hatcher's own work typically engages with free jazz both as a set of experimental practices, and as an idiom with a history unto itself. He also participates across the diverse spectrum of experimental and improvised music being made in Chicago today. Gerrit has many active projects including his duo with Anton Hatwich, as well as a duo with Julian Kirshner, a solo saxophone practice, the improvising trio Devouring the Guilt with Eli Namay and Bill Harris, a trio with Mars Williams and Lia Kohl, and his organ quartet Refunction."

-Experimental Sound Studio (https://ess.org/esscalendar/2018/3/15/option-gerrit-hatcher-and-anton-hatwich)
3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



1. Salt Dome 1 5:42

2. Salt Dome 2 8:32

3. Salt Dome 3 6:39

4. Cooking Fuel 6:27

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Improvised Music
Free Improvisation
Solo Artist Recordings
Recordings by or featuring Reed & Wind Players

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