Devin Drobka S Bell Dance Group Sounds Like Little Else In Midwestern Jazz

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Milwaukee drummer Devin Drobka—an increasing local presence through his membership in Andrew Trim’s Dim Lighting, various groupings with former Chicago guitarist Dave Miller, the free jazz group Sweet Talk, and Chris Weller’s Hanging Hearts, among others—rolls into town tomorrow evening with his own group, Bell Dance Songs, for a show at Constellation. Earlier this year the quartet released a pithy, eponymous eight-track album wherein the meditative, melancholy shapes of Drobka’s melodies consistently create tension with his frenetic, active drumming (particularly his cymbal work).

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