Free Jazz Tuesday w/ Ghosts of the American Dream

The band is built for this kind of conjuring. Jay Sanders, equally at home in the bass chair of Acoustic Syndicate and in the improvised guitar music he plays most weeks in this room, leads here on guitar; Matt Smith lets the pedal steel keen and glow above the songs; Will Boyd’s reeds give the music a voice that can pray or protest; Zack Page holds the low end while Evan Martin keeps a pulse that knows when to mourn and when to march. They can make Paul Simon’s exhausted hymn and Oscar Peterson’s dream of freedom feel like they were always meant to share a single night. Nothing here is reverent for its own sake. The point is to find what is still breathing inside the old promises.