Friday, Jan. 16: Alexander Anderson Trio

Deadbeat Olympia

By Rev. Adam McKinney on January 12, 2015

Alexander Anderson, a student of the Berklee College of Music, leads a trio of jazz fusion madness. Blending some of the spacy free form wildness of Sun Ra with the down-and-dirty textures of Miles Davis, the Alexander Anderson Trio take an egg beater to expectations, creating deceptively complex songs that blend the psychedelic headiness of free jazz and the formality of the classics of the genre. On Fender Rhodes and synthesizer, Anderson's fingers trip and skip down the keys in a way that can be dangerously unpredictable. With the rest of the bill fleshed out by the power prog of Jeff Mikey and the Bouncy House, as well as the cacophonous sludge of Captain Algebra, this will certainly be an alluringly eclectic show. Try not to get whiplash from the sudden shifts in styles.

ALEXANDER ANDERSON TRIO, w/ Jeff Mikey and the Bouncy House, Captain Algebra, 8 p.m., Deadbeat Olympia, 226 N. Division St., Olympia, cover tba, 360.943.0662