What to do tonight? Our Gavin Borchert suggests you see eighth blackbird (yes, they spell it that way) at the Benny:My guess is that in the future, it'll become apparent that Arnold Schoenberg's most lasting and significant contribution to music history was not the twelve-tone composition method he codified (which never became the lingua franca he envisioned), but his establishment of the "Pierrot ensemble"--the grouping of violin, cello, flute, clarinet, and piano he used in his 1912 work Pierr
Just in case you happen to be anywhere near Wapokoneta, Ohio, in the next week. The full text of the press release, which we haven't edited one whit, is after the jump, and no, I am not related to Sarah Kaufmann:
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Yo La TengoMatthew Shipp & Joe Morris at Seattle Asian Art Museum, 8 p.m.
Shipp's playing is like some kind of inverted, dark-matter version of whatever you think a jazz pianist is going to sound like. The shape of the lines, the concept of melody, follows a strange, original logic that is a tonic for so much else that deadens the ears. He plays duo here with Morris, another celebrated avant-gardist. MARK D. FEFER
Times New Viking, Herr Jazz at the Vera Project, 7:30 p.m., $10, all ages