Free-jazz titan Joe McPhee—long a fixture of the Hudson Valley’s improvised-music underground—heads a new monthly Sunday jazz series at Reason and Ruckus. For the inaugural night, the Poughkeepsie-based saxophonist and trumpeter leads a quartet with bassist Michael Bisio, drummer Jay Rosen, and guitarist-curator James Keepnews, promising a set of searching, high-wire improvisation. Opening the evening is guitarist and vocalist Ava Mendoza, a recent Hudson Valley arrival whose solo performances blur avant-rock, noise, and jazz. Tickets at the door.
