Marty Ehrlich

Marty Ehrlich presents at CentroCentro a avant-garde jazz and free improvisation trio, alongside double bassist John Edwards and drummer Mark Sanders, as part of the JAZZMADRID programme.

Marty Ehrlich is an American saxophonist, composer and multi-instrumentalist associated with the saxophone, clarinet and flute. His career began in his youth within the multidisciplinary collective Black Artist Group, in St Louis, and he is today placed on the New York scene alongside Tim Berne, Ray Anderson and Myra Melford. Over five decades he has played with George Russell, Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richard Abrams, Lester Bowie and John Zorn.

On this visit to Madrid he leads an acoustic line-up completed by British double bassist John Edwards, whose technique is versatile and whose low register is solid, and by drummer Mark Sanders, who has extensive experience of European improvised music alongside Evan Parker and Wadada Leo Smith.

The concert takes as its starting point original pieces and specific melodies that serve as the basis for improvisation, without a fixed script. Ehrlich alternates between saxophone and clarinet, while Edwards holds the rhythm on double bass and Sanders sets the pulse on drums and percussion.