Dead Cat Bounce

Rank #427 Brooklyn, NY Jazz / blues / rock

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Members: Dead Cat Bounce: Bill Carbone (drums), Jared Sims, Charlie Kohlhase, Terry Goss, Matt Steckler (saxes), Dave Ambrosio (bass)

Sounds Like: Charles Mingus, World Saxophone Quartet, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Medeski Martin & Wood, Henry Threadgill

Label: Cuneiform (2011); Innova (2003-06)

Bio: Presciently stripped from the headlines, the term dead cat bounce denotes a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining stock. To the artists in Dead Cat Bounce, it signifies one’s dedication to creative rebirth and renewal even as times, traditions and masters move on.

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"Steckler and his game-changing sextet wield this thesis like a sculptor with an industrial laser."

— State of Mind

"...groovy, challenging, mercurial, and satisfying new release...."

— Boston Globe

"As a pure journey of sound, Chance Episodes tells an impressive story."

— All About Jazz

"Dead Cat Bounce brings a joyful, exuberant voice to the sculpture garden party."

— NYC Jazz Record

"DCB revels in a reed-driven sound marked by sharply contrasting forms, textures and tones...strident, joyful, lush and strutting use of a horn section."

— Mike Joyce, Washington Post

"What carries through each piece is Steckler's gift for rich voicings among four horn players... Dead Cat's music doesn't joke around."

— Mike Shanley, Jazz Times

"Dead Cat Bounce epitomize the best of the Boston jazz scene – to make the most of working outside conventional commercial structures, to treat a band as a workshop of ideas, to look forward while drawing on the best of the past. Think of Mingus’s swirling counterpoint and rhythm shifts with the similarly rich voicings and solo-ensemble balance of the World Saxophone Quartet. What more could you ask for?"

— Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix

"What one remembers most about it are the compulsive, seething grooves and the brawling saxophones... Great Stuff all around: for sheer snaggletoothed excitement Home Speaks to the Wandering is hard to beat."

— Nate Dorward (also ranked DCB in Top 10 Exclaim! Magazine ), Cadence

"[Matt Steckler’s] whip-smart sextet of four saxes, bass, and drums rolls through his multi-sectioned compositions with toe-tapping ease. Skewed tangos, deviant marches, churchy hymns, and dissonant abstraction, swing band riffs, collective improvisations, and individual solos roll and tumble their way over funky vamps, swinging grooves and unclassifiable beats. Great ensemble playing, high spirits, an endearing, but twisted, sense of fun make Dead Cat’s second release a winner."

— Ed Hazell, Signal To Noise

"I am sure you will be impressed by the great writing, the originality of style, the wide variety of moods, individual solo efforts and most of all, a real group that is single minded and totally involved in the music."

— Dave Liebman, liner notes - Legends of the Nar

"With Dead Cat Bounce twentysomething Boston saxophonist Matt Steckler livens up the mix: incorporating a sensibility weaned on rock and at least on speaking terms with jam bands, the music easily morphs from straight-ahead jazz rhythms into a cool backbeat, a tango lilt, or a punk-derived pulse… The writing offers enough variety to occasionally make you forget that all the music comes from these same six guys."

— Neil Tesser, Chicago Reader, Critic's Choice

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Salem, MA, US | 7:00pm
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Salem, MA, US
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Mar 9

Proctor's Theater
Schenectady, NY, US | 7:00pm
Proctor's Theater
Schenectady, NY, US
Sat Mar 09 7:00pm
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Party Horns Series III Showtime 7:30
2012
Dec 1

The ARTery
Edmonton, CA | 8:00pm
The ARTery
Edmonton, CA
Sat Dec 01, 2012 8:00pm
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The Rebellion Returns to The Artery, this time joining forces with Dead Cat Bounce and Green Light District. Tickets just $10 at http://yeglive.ca/events/the-rebellion/dec-1-2012/artery https://www.facebook.com/events/443215169056696/ Doors at 8 $4 Yellowhead Love, The Artery & The Rebellion
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Nov 24

Rockhal
Esch-Sur-Alzette, LU | 8:00pm
Rockhal
Esch-Sur-Alzette, LU
Sat Nov 24, 2012 8:00pm
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Seed to Tree is proud to have been selected for this year's Sonic Visions, music conference & showcase festival that takes place at the Rockhal over 2 days on 23rd and 24th November. Seed to Tree is playing on Saturday 24th November For full details visit the website: www.sonicvisions.lu Line-up for 24th November: SEED TO TREE (of course) www.seedtotree.lu FRANCIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (AT) www.francisinternationalairport.com DJANGO DJANGO (UK) www.djangodjango.co.uk CLOCK OPERA (UK) www.clockopera.com ROLO TOMASSI (UK) www.myspace.com/rolotomassi MONOPHONA (L) www.monophona.com NATAS LOVES YOU (LU) www.myspace.com/nataslovesyou SAY YES DOG www.facebook.com/sayyesdog Ticket details: www.sonicvisions.lu/festival/festival-tickets
2012
Nov 4

Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT, US | 3:00pm
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT, US
Sun Nov 04, 2012 3:00pm
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Sunday , November 04 , 2012 , 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM Founded 15 years ago by Matt Steckler '97, the jazz group Dead Cat Bounce invokes Charles Mingus and the World Saxophone Quartet, featuring four saxophonists--Mr. Steckler, Jared Sims, Charlie Kohlhase, and Terry Goss--plus bassist Dave Ambrosio and drummer Bill Carbone (Ph.D. candidate). The band will perform Mr. Steckler's compositions from their fourth album "Chance Episodes" (2011), which was praised in "Downbeat" and "Jazz Times" magazines. Location: Russell House All Rooms Admission: FREE! Sponsor: Russell House, Center for the Arts Contact: 860-685-3355, boxoffice@wesleyan.edu

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Sylvie Perron
Superb musicianship! My humble bravo to you!!!!
Dead Cat Bounce
Thanks Joon! Hope to see you at a show one of these days!!! - Matt
Joon Wolfsberg
Nice music :) like it a lot. Wish you a wonderful and sunny day. Joon