Tim Berne at Roulette

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Roulette presents Tim Berne’s More Snakeoil Friday, June 28 at 8pm. More Snakeoil, an extension of Berne’s highly acclaimed 2012 ECM release Snakeoil, see’s Berne introducing music written for a new octet as well as some “extreme reworkings” of recent, smaller ensemble works. Snakeoil, an album “that typifies his relentlessly inventive style: meticulous but volatile, with a shifting balance between convoluted form and wide-open improvisation” - (New York Times) and hailed as “unpredictable and fresh” - (All About Jazz), is comprised of Ches Smith, Oscar Noriega and Matt Mitchell, More Snakeoil will, over 2 different sets, incorporate Erik Friedlander, Ryan Ferreira, Trevor Dunn, Herb Robertson and Mat Maneri into the mix.