If you go
› What: Skeeter Shelton’s Spectrum 2 with Joel Peterson› Where: Barking Legs Theater, 1307 Dodds Ave.› When: 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24› Admission: Free› For more information: shakingray.com
CoPAC and the Shaking Ray Levi Society are hosting Skeeter Shelton’s Spectrum 2 with Joel Peterson on Wednesday night, Jan. 24, at Barking Legs Theater.
It’s a rare chance to hear Detroit’s Skeeter Shelton, “one of the great unsung saxophonists in free jazz,” according to Shaking Ray Levi Society, play with double bassist Joel Peterson. Even more unusual: It’s free and open to the public as part of Barking Legs Theater’s Jazz in the Lounge weekly series.
Both musicians were mentored by saxophonist Faruq Z. Bey of the group Griot Galaxy, although separated by three decades. Besides performing together with Bey and other members of Detroit’s jazz and creative music scene, Shelton and Peterson have two ensembles with pianist Thollem McDonas.
The son of drummer Ajaramu (formerly Joe Shelton), Shelton grew up around many of his father’s bandmates: Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Fred Anderson and Ajaramu’s longtime love interest Amina Claudine Meyers.