On July 7th, Brockton Arts
is proud to present:
“Art Jazz Improv”

Artist Linda Clave will paint
to live Avant-garde Jazz music performed by
Eric Zinman and Damon Smith.

Join us for a wonderful night of spontaneous creativity.

Brockton Arts

33 Dover Street

Suite 130 A

Brockton, MA 02301

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About The Performers:

Linda Clave earned her BA and MFA from Boston University School of Arts.  After traveling in Mexico and South America, she moved to Ipswich where she painted and was an active member of Early Sites Research Society, helping in archeological excavations.  She later returned to Boston where she continued painting and working with mixed media and printmaking. She is also an active participant in Energy Theater. Linda now specializes in painting to live music.

Born Eric Green Zinman 1963, began the study of piano and voice as a child. Interest in classic music, Broadway, Rock’n Roll and R&B. As a teenager he discovered black music and modified his approach in jazz, blues, gospel, and the music of the strip clubs. Later composition studies with Bill Dixon, George Russell and Jimmy Guiffre. Beginning in 1987 he produced a number of ensembles with Laurence Cook, Craig Schildhauer, John Voigt, Syd Smart and Glynis Lomon. In the mid 2000s he began to tour Europe with Mario Rechtern and later Linda Sharrock. As he is fond of saying “Music is two souls rubbing together”. He believes music is an essential part of the human story. Since 2000 he has recorded 18 albums and has been reviewed in 9 languages. Eric Zinman is listed in the 19th Edition of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings.

Damon Smith studied double bass with Lisle Ellis and has had lessons with Bertram Turezky, Joëlle Leandré, John Lindberg, Mark Dresser and others. Damon’s explorations into the sonic palette of the double bass have resulted in a personal, flexible improvisational language based in the American jazz avant-garde movement and European non-idiomatic free improvisation. Visual art, film and dance heavily influence his music, as evidenced by his CAMH performance of Ben Patterson’s Variations for Double Bass, collaborations with director Werner Herzog on soundtracks for Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World, and an early performance with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.  Damon has run Balance Point Acoustics record label since 2001, releasing music focusing on transatlantic collaborations between US and European musicians.