Improv Night

Pianist Erez Dessel and bassist Tyler Wagner present an evening of solo improvisations on their respective instruments.

Masking required.

Erez Dessel (USA 1998) is an improvising pianist and composer. After graduating from the New England Conservatory in Boston in 2020, Dessel moved to Savannah, GA, where he served as music director at the Savannah Music Festival Jazz Academy, Savannah’s first free after-school youth jazz program. He also kept up an active performing career in the southeast, including presenting an hour-long improvised work for piano, pastel, and paper at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center. He moved to Chicago in 2022, and has worked continuously both as a performer and organizer, recording in an array of contexts with many internationally renowned musicians (including Ken Vandermark, Tim Daisy, Dustin Laurenzi, Maria Elena Silva, and Seajun Kwon).

https://erezdessel.com/

Tyler Wagner is a musician from Eden Prairie, Minnesota currently living in Chicago, Illinois. He is an improviser, producer, songwriter, mix engineer, and teacher. He plays the upright bass and bass guitar, acoustic and electric guitars, electronics, and he sings. some people who he’s studied under directly and who shaped him irreversibly: Chris Bates, Adam Linz, Erik Fratzke, Bob Gullotti, John Lockwood, Ran Blake, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart, Ethan Iverson, Jason Moran, Carla Kihlstedt, Nedelka Prescod, Ted Reichman, and Anthony Coleman.

https://t-wagner.earth/