Darcy James Argue's Secret Society + Todd Sickafoose's Tiny Resistors

Bandleader-composer Darcy James Argue’s music has a dark and foreboding quality, even as it pulses with rock energy, imbued with a harmonic sophistication that places him in the lineage of Bob Brookmeyer, Maria Schneider and other large-ensemble modernists. Moreover Argue has a demonstrated a shrewd ability to reach listeners via his fascinating blog—in short, he’s making big bands cool again. Here he shares a bill with bassist-composer Todd Sickafoose.