Pro Musica Musical Evenings Presents the Chicago Microbes

Musical Evenings is glad to welcome this extremely talented trio!!!

Chicago Microbes
Will Greene Guitar, Saxophone
Jason Roebke Bass
Devin Drobka Drums Percussion

Doors Open at 7pm
Concert at 8pm
Artist Donations Requested
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Chicago Microbes is the latest compositional vehicle of guitarist and saxophonist Will Greene. Featuring Jason Roebke on double bass and Devin Drobka on drums, this trio embraces and sabotages this classic trio lineup in a single breath. Skeptically tuneful and skillfully obtuse, the Microbes wend their way through Greene’s playful and questioning writing. These spring performances feature the group workshopping material for their forthcoming first record.

WILL GREENE plays guitar and saxophone and currently resides in Chicago, after spending many years as an active member of various Brooklyn, NY music communities. His musical practice explores time-bending, pitch excursions, and interactive notions.In addition to an active schedule of jazz and improvisation adjacent activities, Will is a member of avant-thrash outfit TRIGGER, italo-prog orchestra TREDICI BACCI, and leads the CHICAGO MICROBES. He is also proud of and grateful for his past and ongoing collaborations that have taken him across the United States and several continents. A woefully abbreviated list of these collaborators: John Zorn, Joe Morris, Raf Vertessen, Elias Stemeseder, Zoe Christiansen, Kenny Wollesen, Max Jaffe, Henry Fraser and Carrie Furniss.

The diversity of JASON ROEBKE’s musical associations make him one of the most sought after bassists, composers, and educators in Chicago and beyond. He composes music that is extreme in its pairing of silence and explosive gestures. His music is rooted in jazz and takes inspiration from experimental music, noise, and improvisation. Solo performance and a duo with dancer Ayako Kato are also at the forefront of his creative activities. As a double bassist, his playing is intensely physical, audacious, and sparse. The Chicago Reader described his work as “a carefully orchestrated rummage through a hardware store.” Roebke studied privately with saxophonist and composer Roscoe Mitchell as well as legendary double bass pedagogue Stuart Sankey. In 2009, he was awarded the Fellowship in Music Composition from the Illinois Arts Council. Roebke tours widely in the US and Europe.

Devin Drobka has been creating original music in the midwest for the past 15 years. Audiences around the world have been enthralled with his wide sonic palette and limitless rhythmic possibilities on the drums. A deep love of jazz, metal, folk, hip-hop, ambient, idm, and classical music has helped shaped Devin’s unique voice and vision on the drums both as a leader and as a sideman. His highly personal and creative drumming can be heard within the realm of jazz having performed with Greg Osby, Jerry Bergonzi, Dayna Stephens, and Joe Lovano as well as indie- folk bands like Field Report and indie rappers R.A.P. Ferreira and Serengeti. Devin can be heard on over 50 albums of genre bending, original music for which he is an advocate for. Devin currently composes music for his newest group, The Devin Drobka Trio, which draws upon his love of contemporary classical music and minimalism and his multi horn group, Bell Dance Songs, which is a response to his love of Albert Ayler, Paul Motian, and Ornette Coleman. Devin’s music has been described as “sounding like nothing else in midwestern jazz” and “gorgeous, innovative.”