SPARKS WILL HOLSHOUSER TRIO

We are attempting to play our instruments beyond their capabilities, taking them outside their traditional boundaries and into new places, where they might very well explode.’, says the duo Sparks. Both free improvisors are influenced by Even Parker, according to Peter Evans, the greatest contemporary music pioneer on the trumpet. He recorded his solo album More is More for Parker’s label, psi. Will Holshouser is probably the only accordionist that ever studied with Anthony Braxton. Holshouser is a highly original composer and arranger who uses jazz as a spectrum for filtering klezmer, tango, European romanticism an much more. ‘The squeezebox king of downtown’ (Time Out) plays ‘as much accordion as there is to be played’ (Village Voice).