26 February, Paradox presents the Rub Recordings Label Night: a night full of wonderful, adventurous jazz featuring Polar Bear and Curios.

Allaboutjazz.com about Polar Bear: “Basically uncategorisable, Polar Bear reflects the mega-eclectic, post-modern listening tastes of Rochford (who wrote all the tunes) and his colleagues, moving with equal enthusiasm through Björk and Beethoven, Pig Destroyer, Coltrane and his tenor legacy, Monk, Stockhausen and the ghost of Rip Rig & Panic. With some of Kurt Weill’s crudely syncopated, rough edged, fairground-meets-cabaret pit band arranging aesthetic thrown in for good measure.It is jazz all right, 100% and no mistake, but with bongfuls of left-field electronica and mutant, rocked-up and pfunkified groove spicing the free-improv centred mix.”

and Jazzwise about Curios: “(…) his improvisations are agitated and jagged, while his themes are serene. Influenced as much by classical as jazz, notes fly frenetically from the keys, restlessly turning the harmony inside and out, while his compositions have a gorgeous, elgaic quality to them. It’s often reminiscent of pianist Ethan Iverson from the Bad Plus. And as with Iverson, Cawley keeps well away from well-worn jazz licks. In the first set, on the original ‘Hidden’ he worked up a steam with an arpeggiated left hand, while hammering chords recalling the punk spirit of Acoustic Ladyland.”

In collaboration with Paradox, we are allowed to give away 2 x 2 tickets.

All you have to do is send us a picture of the biggest, fattest Polar Bear you can find. Mail these pics to winATincubateDOTorg before Thursday 23:00. The winning Polar Bears will be published on Inlog this Friday.

26 February 2010
Start: 21.00
Damage: € 10,- ParaPas € 8,-
Paradox, Telegraafstraat 62 Tilburg