ECM Ensemble at White Horse Black Mountain

UNC Asheville’s student ECM Ensemble, led by Associate Professor William Bares on piano, will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 22, at the White Horse Black Mountain, 105c Montreat Rd., Black Mountain, N.C. Admission is $10 in advance, $12 at the door; $6 for students. For advance tickets, visit the White Horse Black Mountain website.

Bares provides this description:
UNCA’s 8-member ECM Ensemble explores the atmospheric, world-music influenced music of Europe’s best known jazz label. Directed by Dr. William Bares, the group plays the breadth of the label’s stylistically diverse catalog. The music blends traditional jazz ensemble with unconventional forms, instruments and grooves. Dr William Bares (keys); Ray Damron (trumpet); Ian Boyer (reeds); Matthew Manning, Clayton Gibb (guitars); Ben Mercer (bass); Chris Simmons (drums); Annie Jo Buchanan (guest vocal).
More about William Bares from White Horse Black Mountain:
Pianist/scholar William Bares received his Ph.D in ethnomusicology in 2009 from Harvard University under the mentorship of Ingrid Monson, the Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music. He spent much of the past decade researching European jazz and playing professionally on the European scene. He has published articles on transatlantic jazz in Jazzforschung, Jazz Research Journal, American Music, and the Grove Dictionary of American Music, among others. He taught at Harvard University, Brown University, Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory before taking a job as assistant professor of music and co-director of jazz studies at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, in 2011. Bares is active in Asheville’s thriving musical community as an educator, musician and promoter. He was the solo pianist in the Blue Ridge Orchestra’s debut of Rhapsody in Blue, and served for three years as curator of the Sunday Jazz Showcase at Asheville’s famed Isis Music Hall. He was also coordinator of Ecomusicologies 2014: Dialogues—an international meeting of scholars and musicians that took place in Asheville in October of 2014. His book, Eternal Triangle: American Jazz in European Postmodern, is forthcoming.