Free Jazz Tuesday: Alan Hall’s Exploritoreum

When a percussion philosopher assembles his laboratory of sound, the walls between rhythm and melody begin to dissolve. This is music as inquiry rather than statement—four sonic investigators treating Little Jumbo’s intimate geometry as a place where questions sound better than answers.

This isn’t a band playing repertoire—it’s an ensemble treating the stage like a petri dish where grooves breathe, textures mutate, and curiosity compounds into something that couldn’t exist in any single musical tradition.

In a room where proximity breeds revelation and every frequency finds its frequency-responder, prepare for an evening where rhythm becomes hypothesis, melody becomes evidence, and four veteran explorers prove that after four decades of making music, the most exciting sound is still the one you haven’t heard yet.

Alan Hall – Drums

Bill Bares – Piano

Quinn Sternberg – Bass

Christian Howes – Violin

Every Monday and Tuesday, Little Jumbo brings live jazz to your ears. littlejumbobar.com

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