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Bio — Nick Macri. Saalfelden Jazz Festival 2014 with Charles Rumback on drums. Bassist and Chicago native Nick Macri has careened in an out of various musical situations over the years from creative group settings and notable sideman gigs to theater work and solo excursions. He is/was a contributing member to many, varied groups including Ken ...
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Ken Vandermark's Audio One (with Jason Adasiewicz, Josh...
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Ibises (Dan Bitney, Nick Macri, Steve Marquette) Nick Macri...
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May 20, 2022 · Chicago bassist Nick Macri is the model of versatility. He has appeared with a formidable gallery of jazz, folk, and rock musicians, including Ken Vandermark, James Elkington, Laetitia Sadier ...
- C-Clamp “In Tow”
- Euphone The Calendar of Unlucky Days
- Laetitia Sadier Silencio
- Audio One What Thomas Bernhard Saw
- Stirrup+6 The Avondale Addition
- Tara Jane O’Neil Tara Jane O’Neil
- Daughter of Swords Prairie Winter Wasteland
- Eleventh Dream Day “Nothing’s Ever Lost“
- Charles Rumback Seven Bridges
- The Sea and Cake Any Day
Macri had earlier bands, but he considers C-Clamp, where he really began to hone his own voice on bass and as a human being. It was his first group right out of college, and at 22, he was the oldest member of a three-piece rounded out by guitarist and vocalist Tom Fitzgerald and drummer Frantz Etienne. This is where Macri became more serious about ...
Macri first met Ryan Rapsys working together as the rhythm section of Heroic Doses, a band that were on the front lines of the Chicago ‘90s post-rock scene, breaking down barriers between punk, jazz, funk, and basically everything else, too. Meeting Rapsys and joining up with him in the multi-instrumentalist duo Euphone was a pivotal moment for Mac...
While playing in the Zincs, who had two albums on Thrill Jockey with James Elkington (Horses Ha, Eleventh Dream Day), Macri went on a month-long bus tour with Monade, Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab)’s side project. The time on the road together made them comrades, and the two hit it off so well that following the tour, they made a collaborative 7″ of K...
Macri had seen Ken Vandermark play many times at his long-running regular gig at the Empty Bottle with the Vandermark 5, but didn’t actually meet him until about 2012, when Vandermark, at drummer Tim Daisy’s suggestion, asked Macri to play with him in a group backing Milwaukee-based visual artist and songwriter, Adrienne Pierluissi (The Margots). “...
Stirrup is Macri’s long-running collective trio with Lonberg-Holm and Rumback. They have released five albums. The Avondale Additionis perhaps Macri’s favorite, as it flips their trio on its head by adding six additional members to the group from across the jazz, improvised, and noise communities—which Macri is quick to point out is really just one...
Mark Greenberg (Eleventh Dream Day, The Coctails) is the studio manager at Wilco’s recording and rehearsal studio, The Loft. His relationship with Tara Jane O’Neil extends back to her earliest performances with Rodanand Drinking Woman at the Lounge Ax in Chicago. When Greenberg and O’Neil were both hanging out at an Eleventh Dream Day show in New Y...
Daughter of Swords is the solo project of Alexandra Sauser-Monnig (Mountain Man), who opened up for Joan Shelleywhile Macri was on the road with her. “Alex played solo and sounded amazing, casting a spell each night on the tour before we went on,” Macri recalls. “The last day of the tour was in Chicago, so I was home, but Alex had plans to stay on ...
Eleventh Dream Day were one of Macri’s favorite bands during his senior year of high school in 1989 when their album Beetcame out. “I played it constantly, especially the opening song, ‘Between Here and There,’” Macri admits. “The 17-year-old me would have pushed the middle-aged-me and said, ‘No way…get out!’ when middle-aged-me told him that he wi...
Charles Rumback is one of Macri’s favorite musicians and humans, so it’s quite remarkable that he’s had the great pleasure to work with Rumback extensively over the course of fifteen years, mostly with Stirrup. “This album of his is one of my favorite albums I’ve ever played on for many reasons, but primarily because it gave me a chance to play and...
Macri has known the fellows in The Sea and Cakefor many years now, as they were labelmates at Thrill Jockey during his time with the Zincs. They also toured together a couple times, as he recalls. “I’ve been listening to The Sea and Cake since before they were The Sea and Cake, meaning [Sam Prekop’s] previous band, Shrimp Boat,” Macri says. “The dr...
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May 27, 2022 · Amache by Nick Macri & Mono No Aware, released 27 May 2022 1. How To Be In The Body… 2. ..Without Jumping Out of Your Skin (for Tracy Pew) 3. Amache (for The Chicago Resettlers) Bassist Nick Macri has been exploring Chicago’s slipstream of creative music for decades from collaborative, creative groups and ad hoc improvised pairings, to notable sideman gigs, and the rare solo excursion.
Chicago Theatre • Photo by Zoran Orlic
