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The Exploding Celebrity Orchestra happened when the Chicago Cultural Middle as well as the Jazz Institute approached cornetist and composer Rob Mazurek about piecing together an avant-garde jazz ensemble to get a Chicago live concert. Mazurek constructed an orchestra of improvising Chicago music artists (including several people of Tortoise), rehearsed …

The Rob Mazurek Octet melds two sides from the cornetist’s artistic — and geographic — world, his Chicago-based Exploding Superstar Orchestra and Starlicker ensembles and his Brazil-based São Paulo Underground. Mazurek set up the octet upon a obtain a Mls Davis-inspired concert to become performed with the past due-2011 arrival …

In marked contrast towards the wide variety of electro-acoustic compositional and improvisational possibilities natural in his Exploding Superstar Orchestra huge ensemble, Chicago cornetist Rob Mazurek chose a romantic, stripped-down environment for the Starlicker trio, which debuted with Increase Demon in the Delmark label in 2011. Mazurek mixed makes with two …