Improv’s Greatest Hits is a night and fluid collective using
improvised music as a vehicle to mix musical and social scenes.
Blurring subculture lines, debuting new artists + collaborations
on the regular

For more and past shows look below !
https://www.instagram.com/improvsgreatesthits

We’re real excited to present NYC and much beyond legend
David Grubbs along with avant garde super group Secluded
Bronte. David will be touring his latest album — Whistle From
Above (Drag City) released soon this month. We’ll be opening
as a chameleonic band to be announced.

DAVID GRUBBS
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https://davidgrubbs.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.dragcity.com/artists/david-grubbs

David Grubbs has released fifteen solo albums and appeared
on more than 200 releases, most recently on mighty label Drag
City. He was a member of the innovative groups Gastr del Sol,
Bastro, Squirrel Bait, and has performed with Tony Conrad,
Pauline Oliveros, Luc Ferrari, Will Oldham, Loren Connors,
Jan St. Werner, the Red Krayola and many others.

Known for his cross-disciplinary collaborations including with
poet Susan Howe , visual artists Anthony McCall, Angela Bulloch
and Josiah McElheny ; his work has been presented at, among
other venues, the Solomon R.GuggenheimMuseum, MoMA, the
Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou.

He is recipient of the Berlin Prize and a Foundation for
ContemporaryArts award in Music/Sound, a member of the
board of directors of Blank Forms, and director of The Blue
Chopsticksrecord label; as well as this a Professor of Music
at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Away from music, David is also an author and published four
books - Good night the pleasure was ours, The Voice in the
Headphones, Now that the audience is assembled + Records
Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound
Recording (all on Duke University Press).


SECLUDED BRONTE
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https://fforddallan.bandcamp.com/

Richard Thomas, Adam Bohman, Jonathan Bohman
- formed in London and launched in New York City in 2002.
They released their first album, Secluded In Jersey City, on
Pogus. Their music combines elements of free improvisation,
rock, musiqueconcrete, dub, songs and spoken word. They
have been likened to a wide array of artists - This Heat, Wire,
The Specials, John Zorn, Jean-Luc Godard, Ennio Morricone,
Talk Talk,The Residents, The Fall, JohnCage and Sun Ra - but,
ultimately, Secluded Bronte are unclassifiable. Since 2020
Secluded Bronte have released six albums on the Ffordd
Allanlabel, an album on Cafe Oto’s Takuroku label, a 7” EP
on Felix Kubin’s Apolkalypso label and toured extensively.
Shows have been as diverse as Sonar Festival Barcelona
/ Brighton Psych Fest / The Knitting Factory New York,
Supernormal, All Tomorrow’s Parties and Le Non Jazz Paris.

“People who hate my stand-up often deny it even
constitutes ‘comedy’Doubtless many would wonder if the
work of the veteran improvisatory trio Secluded Bronte should
be considered ‘music’. Instruments may be involved, perhaps
furniture, maybe even words, or all three in a chance collision
of calculated heterogeneity. All that is certain – time will pass
and something will happen. Start your day in a right state”
- Stewart Lee

“Metronomic electrical pulses are made beautiful by multiple
layeringinto complex rhythms with melodic pitch changes,
accompanied byspoken words as if walking through a hall of
mirrors or a scene from AlainResnais’s Last Year in Marienbad”
- The Wire Magazine,

“What is this? The pop group we always wanted.”
The Quietus/BBC Radio 3


IMPROV’s GREATEST HITS BAND
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Occasionally we rep as a band ! Group members are free
flowing and for this one to be confirmed >>>> Usual + past
musicians have been from bands such as Bingo Fury / Foot
Foot / Ex Agent / Minor Conflict / Big Fuss Ensemble
Leatherhead / Lobby / Zalizo / Broadsheets / Repo
Man / Liquid Library and more

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