FRANK TROMPETER is a long-time mainstay of the central Illinois jazz scene, playing regularly in a number of jazz ensembles including his own Frank Trompeter Quartet. Trompeter has also played in experimental groups such as Elevator Shoe and The Untoward Quartet, and was the chief organizer of The Innovators New Music Series in Springfield.
MARK SCHWARTZ is an improvising guitarist & bassist who played with Frank in Untoward Quartet and was also a member of the rock-jazz power trio, Liquid Sun. Along with End Times Trio, he also currently plays in Tin Ghost, an alt-folk band. Schwartz, who often uses objects, metal, toys, and electronics to prepare his guitar and bass, evokes a range of percussive and horn-like tones.
RICHARD GILMAN-OPALSKY is a drummer and percussionist who has recently relocated to Springfield from NYC to take a position as professor of political philosophy at The University of Illinois. In NYC, Gilman-Opalsky was one half of the saxophone and drums duo, Fire&Flux, and has recently recorded with Blaise Siwula and Katsuyuki Itakura.
Influences
Ornette Coleman, Frank Wright, Arthur Doyle, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Fred Frith, Masayuki Takayanagi, Sunny Murray, Milford Graves, Charles Mingus, Peter Brotzmann, Frank Lowe, Kaoru Abe, John Gruntfest, Louis Armstrong, Sonny Sharrock, Last Exit, Sonny Simmons, Glenn Spearman, Muhammad Ali, Oliver Lake, Pheeroan AkLaff, Rashied Ali, Alvin Fielder, Shoji Hano, Sonic Youth, The Blue Humans, Susie Ibarra, Rashied Sinan, Charlie Parker, Michael Wimberly, Henry Grimes, Wilber Morris, Edward "Kidd" Jordan, Ivo Perelman, Luther Thomas, Charles Gayle, and Bill Dixon.
Sounds Like
Bombastic freejazz improvisation, with lots of melody and calm in between ecstatic blowouts... Or, just listen to the sounds above!
END TIMES TRIO, Springfield’s new, perhaps only, avant-garde freejazz trio, features FRANK TROMPETER on tenor, alto, and soprano saxophones, MARK SCHWARTZ on prepared guitar, bass, and electronics, and RICHARD GILMAN-OPALSKY on drums and percussion. END TIMES TRIO plays dynamic improvised music that treads a sonic terrain from sparse and melodic to dense, blustery cacophony.
END TIMES TRIO has released its first CD, entitled "Fracture Time" (on Fire & Flux). It is available at CD Baby.com.
