Acclaimed saxophonist Travis Laplante and trumpeter Peter Evans to perform at Barking Legs on Sunday, May 13 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $10 advance/$12 at the door, and $8 for under 25 at the door.

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Travis Laplante is one of the true explorers of the saxophone. A member of the acclaimed Brooklyn quartet Little Women (with alto saxophonist Darius Jones), Laplante has been garnering recent praise for his solo tenor saxophone voyages on his 2011 album Heart Protector (on Skirl Records), declared one of 2011’s Top Three “Best Solo Performances” by Destination: Out. It is a release that is boldly creative and nuanced, shattering the expectations of what the saxophone should sound like, in the spirit of Anthony Braxton’s influential For Alto.

Peter Margasak of the Chicago Reader wrote, “Laplante brings pinpoint precision to ferocious extended technique — circular breathing, fiery overblowing, and starburst harmonics” while Nate Chinen of the New York Times called Heart Protector “…arrhythmic and often atonal, but ripe with tension. There’s tremendous technical control behind what Mr. Laplante does here, splintering notes as if through a prism, using circular breathing for purposes of hypnotism.”

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Peter Evans is undeniably one of the brightest young stars in the jazz scene today, rising swiftly in prominence and reputation for his spotless trumpet playing technique in both the jazz and classical realms. Current bands include the Peter Evans Quartet and Quintet, Moppa Elliott's terrorist bebop band Mostly Other People Do the Killing, the hyperactive improvisation duo Sparks (with Tom Blancarte), duo with trumpeter Nate Wooley, as well as a sustained interest in solo performance. Other collaborators have included: Mary Halvorson, Steve Beresford, Jim Black, Evan Parker, John Zorn, Tony Buck, Weasel Walter, and Christian Marclay.

“Evans, simply put, is a spectacular talent... Evans combines the dramatic fire of old jazz with the resonating strangeness and elusive techniques of the best current free improvisation.” - Point of Departure

“Peter Evans has combined an utterly remarkable instrumental control with a total awareness across the spectrum of new musics and the doors have opened” - free improv pioneer Evan Parker