Paul Rucker and Hans Teuber: Live at The Grocery

Join us for an evening of improvised music with Paul Rucker (cello) and Hans Teuber (alto saxophone, woodwinds). Longtime collaborators of nearly 25 years, Rucker and Teuber use their distinctive musical voices to create lyrical soundscapes, drawing on their shared roots in Seattle's improvisational music scene.

Come see this exciting musical duo making their debut at The Grocery! Every concert the duo presents is improvised and spontaneously produced.

Saturday May 17, 7pm doors, 7:30 performance

Teuber, who is a top call saxophonist, woodwind doubler, composer, arranger and keyboardist in Seattle started working with Rucker, who is a cellist, bassist, visual artist and composer in 2001 and released the critically acclaimed CD “Oil” featuring 9 improvised pieces. Both have worked with jazz luminaries Bill Frisell, Julian Priester, Michael White and Wayne Horvitz. They have also both worked with Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam. Teuber was inducted into the Earshot Jazz Hall of Fame, and Rucker’s Quintet that includes Teuber won Best Outside Jazz Group from the Earshot Jazz Awards.

Their performance at The Grocery follows two sold out shows at the Jazz&TheCity festival in Salzburg, Austria.

All proceeds go to the artists. Light snacks and beverages provided.

About Paul Rucker

Paul Rucker is a multimedia visual artist, composer, and musician. His practice often integrates live performance, original musical compositions, and visual art installation. For nearly two decades, Paul has used his own brand of art making as a social practice, which illuminates the legacy of enslavement in America and its relationship to the current socio-political moment. His work is the product of a rich interactive process, through which he investigates community impacts, human rights issues, historical research, and basic human emotions.

Paul has received numerous grants, awards, and residencies for visual art and music. He is a Creative Capital grantee in visual art as well as a multiple grantee from MAP Fund for performance. He was awarded the Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant as well as the Mary Sawyer Baker Award. In 2016 Paul received the Rauschenberg Artist as Activist fellowship and the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, becoming the first artist in residence at the National Museum of African American Culture.

Paul is a Guggenheim Fellow, TED Fellow and Senior Fellow, Rauschenburg Fellow, and an iCubed Arts Research Fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University. Currently, he is the Curator for Creative Collaboration for VCUarts at Virginia Commonwealth University.

About Hans Teuber

Hans Teuber has been a top call saxophonist, woodwind doubler, composer, arranger, and keyboardist in the Pacific northwest for over 30 years. In 2021, he was inducted into the Earshot Jazz hall of fame. Hans has recorded with many artists and toured extensively across North America, Europe, Japan, and Brazil.

He has performed with jazz luminaries like George Cables, Julian Priester, Bill Frisell, Chano Domingues, Michael White, and Wayne Horvitz. He toured and recorded with folk singer Ani DiFranco and recorded with notable Seattle rock bands Brad and Mudhoney. Hans has also been actively involved in the cirque world spending 18 years with Teatro Zinzanni and currently working with Montreal's comedy duo "Monseigneures Tim et Joe."

Hans’ albums as a leader:

• “Lucky” Origin Records
• “Looky” Jackson Street Records
• “Oil” w/ Paul Rucker Jackson Street Records
• “Deuce” w/Jeff Johnson Origin Records

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