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Wilco’s Nels Cline playing Stubb’s this weekend

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By Matthew Odam | Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 12:52 PM

If you have seen Wilco perform, you are familiar with guitar genius Nels Cline, whose technique, tone and style are awe inspiring and have led Rolling Stone to call him a “Guitar God” and Jazz Time to label him “The World’s Most Dangerous Guitar Player.” I have heard people wonder aloud whether Cline ever gets bored playing rock music with Wilco. I can’t imagine he does, as Wilco is a phenomenal band, but more to the point, Cline, as with other Wilco band members, has several side projects in which he gets out his creative ya-ya’s, the main one being the Nels Cline Singers.

Don’t let the name of the long-standing trio featuring percussionist Scott Amendola and bassist Devon Hoff fool you. This is no church choir. The talented trio, that is signed to L.A. jazz imprint Cryptogramophone, plays improvised free jazz and one thing you can certainly expect from them is the unexpected, from tunes reminiscent of the sultry sounds of Charles Mingus to the scathing finger work of acid jazz along the lines of Al Di Meola.

Check Cryptogramophone’s site for some clips from the group’s recent CD, “Draw Breath.”

The Nels Cline Singers play inside at Stubb’s this Sunday. It promises to be an electrifying and edifying show. And don’t expect to hear “I’m The Man Who Loves You.”

Nels Cline Singers
Sunday, July 13
Stubb’s inside
Doors at 8 p.m.
[Tickets]

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