Tonight is your only night to catch this band in the middle of their Midwest tour!

Michael Eaton - saxophones
Brad Whiteley - piano
Daniel Ori - bass
Shareef Taher - drums

Michael Eaton (b. 1981) is a Brooklyn-based saxophonst, composer, and educator. As a saxophonist and improvising artist, his professonal career to date has spanned a variety of idioms, encompassing jazz, free improvised music, soul, rock, western classical, funk, reggae, rockabilly, marching bands, and beyond. He embraces a progressive and holistic vision of jazz, cognizant of its rich historical origins and development, but reaches for a personal outlook with an eye towards future possibilities.

Michael's 2014 debut album on Destiny Records, Individuation, highlights his most recent music performed by his New York quartet along with trumpeter Jon Crowley. Individuation integrates angular themes and propulsive modern jazz with intricately rhythmic minimalistic vamps, freebop, Cageian prepared piano, and multi-layered open platforms. The band is joined on several cuts by a very special guest, master musician and saxophonist David Liebman.

Michael is a charter member of composer Dorian Wallace's Free Sound Ahn-Somble, a progressive avant-leaning big band, now entering its third season. He often appears with multi-instrumentalist Adam Minkoff at Rockwood Music Hall in a variety of ensembles, including Vaalbara, a post-70s Miles/downtown band that fuses rock, jazz, funk, and free improvisation.

Over the course of 2014, Michael recorded with drummer David Andrew Moore on his release Personal Mythologies. He recorded tracks in the soul genre with Paul Loren on Five & Dime Records for his album, Leisurely, and he was twice featured in the nationally touring Pink Floyd cover band, The Machine. The summer saw a new recording with his power free jazz/rock trio, Anderson/Eaton/Minkoff, adding prepared piano and electronics. In November, he returned to the studio with Minkoff to record Minkoff's octet version of the Rite of Spring.

Michael earned a degree in Jazz Studies from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University-Bloomington in 2004. Since moving to Brooklyn in early 2008, he has been an active participant in a broad array of creative music. In addition to his own ensembles, he has performed with: Lifesquad, Anderson/Eaton/Minkoff trio, the David Andrew Moore Band, Lester St. Louis's Distonal Quintet, Jon Crowley's Heart of Darkness, the MK Groove Orchestra, the Jonathan Saraga Quintet, the George Mel Quartet, the Sam Raderman Quartet, and many others. He has performed at a host of NYC venues like Le Poisson Rouge, Cornelia Street Cafe, The Kitano, 55 Bar, Shapeshifter Lab, Rockwood Music Hall, Drom, Small's Jazz Club, Somethin' Jazz, Tea Lounge, Sycamore Hall, Caffe Vivaldi, Club Groove, Bowery Poetry Club, ABC Norio, Spike Hill, The Fifth Estate, and The Underground Lounge.

As a sideman, his credits include performances with David Baker, Ingrid Jensen, Jim Snidero, Eugene Chadbourne, Jimmy Carl Black, Ned Rothenberg, Fred Hersch's Leaves of Grass, Phil Markowitz, Tony Marino, Matt Darriau, The Temptations, and Sylvia McNair.

http://www.michaeleatonmusic.com/

https://destinyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/individuation