Bad Luck Releases New Album “Three”

Table & Chairs Presents: Bad Luck, Three Record Release Concert
featuring Tomo Nakayama

Chris Icasiano and Neil Welch, A.K.A. Bad Luck, are thrilled to announce the long-awaited release of their third full-length studio album Three. This concert will kick-off the start of their first national tour. Opening the show will be have the endlessly talented Tomo Nakayama, of Grand Hallway.

The concert will take place at The Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood on Wednesday, October 1st, 2014 at 8:00pm.

Nearly ten years into their collaboration, Seattle-based drum and saxophone duo Bad Luck returns with Three, their third full-length release on Table & Chairs. Drummer Chris Icasiano and saxophonist Neil Welch formed Bad Luck while in college, and from its humble beginnings reinterpreting jazz standards, the duo has remained in a constant state of artistic urgency. Icasiano and Welch sculpted Three while touring and performing over the last two years, many of the songs having emerged during long stints on the road together. Holding steady to the artistic integrity of their previous records, Bad Luck performs music only possible with these two musicians in a room together. Their melodies, improvisations and compositions are carefully constructed from the ground up, and in many cases, simply cannot be conventionally notated. Theirs is a language of transmission and a sound of complete artistic balance between the two players.

Three was recorded live to tape by Trevor Spencer on March 20th and 21st, 2014. The album includes Bad Luck’s first cover, a brief rendering of saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell’s now apocryphal composition “Nonaah”. In June of 2013 Bad Luck had the honor of performing a bill with the legendary musician, a show which seemed to plant the piece into their new set.

Bad Luck Three Album Release Concert with Tomo Nakayama
The Chapel Performance Space on the fourth floor of the Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103
Wednesday, October 1st, 2014
Doors 7:30 - Music 8:00
$10-15 Suggested Donation – a donation of $15 will include a copy of “Three”