The Jazz Gallery Presents: Ches Smith/Craig Taborn/Mat Maneri

This Thursday, the 16th, drummer Ches Smith will bring his adventurous, battle-tested trio, with Craig Taborn on piano and Mat Maneri on viola, to The Jazz Gallery. You might have caught Smith, a drummer and vibraphonist, at the Gallery before, as a sideman for Linda Oh, Mary Halvorson, Tim Berne and other new music luminaries. But this peculiar trio showcases his songwriting and arranging instincts, as well as an unbound freedom for chasing musical ideas to their extremes.As a unit, the creative and risk-taking Smith, Taborn and Maneri crawl and race through sonic experiments: their album, "The Bell," was released last year, contained chamber music-like counterpoint, placid pools of sound and furious grooves. "It’s difficult to remember 'The Bell' as a single entity after you’re finished with it, because it always seems to be moving somewhere different," Ben Ratliff wrote in the New York Times. Before seeing the group's uncanny interplay on Thursday, check check out a video here of their explosive communal music-making, below.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B0OAa8cuaoChes Smith/Craig Taborn/Mat Maneri play The Jazz Gallery on Thursday, February 16th, 2017. Sets are at 7:30 and 9:30 P.M. $15 general admission ($10 for members) for each set. Purchase tickets here.