BAM Next Wave Festival. Given the uncanny balance of rigor and whimsy in the music of clarinetist, bandleader and composer Andy Biskin, we can think of no one better qualified to play alongside black-and-white animated film shorts depicting the madcap inventions of cartoonist Rube Goldberg. When Biskin slips and slides with his all-star sextet, the only question will be whether BAM's tiny Fisher Space can contain such explosive mirth.
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