Fat Kid Wednesdays
Mike Lewis, saxophones
Adam Linz, bass
J.T. Bates, drums
Fat Kid Wednesdays have been playing together for over 16 years, and have been instrumental to the success of improvised music haven The Clown Lounge in St. Paul, where they regularly appear. With their seamless interaction and sense of adventure (and humor), FKW have consistently defined what is new and hip in local music.
“For all their influences—good, deeply and sincerely assimilated ones (they offer neither pastiche nor parody, and there’s no anxiety to the influence)—their music, and their interaction, is deeply personal; Lewis’s solos, digging from melody to wail, moving from a breathy, atonal whisper to a deep, swinging groove, have a vulnerable, confessional air.” -Richard Brody, The New Yorker
