In-Between Series presents:

Jeff Crompton & Mike Baggetta

Improvised Music

Monday, August 21, 2023

Doors at 7:00 pm, show at 7:30 pm

$5 admission

Jeff Crompton – Woodwinds

Mike Baggetta – Guitar & Electronics

About Jeff Crompton

Jeff Crompton was born in Atlanta in 1958. For 30 years, beginning in 1982, he taught public school band in the Atlanta area. During that period, he played with a variety of bands and musicians, including pianist/composer Michael J. Smith, Darryl Rhoades, and The Bazooka Ants.

Since retiring from teaching, Jeff has focused on composition and performing his off-center, jazz-based music around the Southeast. More recent musical associates include guitarists Davey Williams and Eugene Chadbourne, Roger Ruzow, and The 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra, among many others. In 2019 Jeff was featured as guest soloist with Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

About Mike Baggetta

“Baggetta is a player of immense subtlety across all dimension, working with an impressive palette of tones … distilling Fripp’s loopscapes with hints of John Fahey.”

-The Wire, UK

“…vintage twang in service of Americana-meets exploratory Jazz-psych…”

-Rolling Stone

“Mike Baggetta makes stealthy, mysterious music … he’s trying to do something personal with collective improvisation without ever getting in the way of beauty.”

-New York Times

“Mike Baggetta is a genre-blurring guitar hero … at the forefront of an army of guitar innovators”

-JazzTimes

Photo credits:

Mike Baggetta photo by Bill Foster

Jeff Crompton photo by Steve Eberhardt