Charlie Rumback’s long-standing trio with Jim Baker and John Tate will be playing a rare show at Compound Yellow on November 2.

The band has released three albums as a trio to date, 2017’s Threes and Tag Book followed by June Holiday in 2020.  The band expanded to a larger group for Rumback’s 2021 album, Seven Bridges. Coming off the heels of some fresh work with Tony Malaby, this is a rare chance to hear the band live on their own.

With new music scheduled for release soon, the band continues to evolve as a band and in collaboration with others.

Jim Baker - piano, ARP

John Tate - bass

Charlie Rumback - drums 

Charlie Rumback is a Chicago musician whose primary medium is collaboration. He works with a wide variety of musicians spanning decades and locations.

Tatsu Aoki, Dave Easley, John Hughes, Bill MacKay, Tony Malaby, Douglas McCombs, Ron Miles, Nina Nastasia, Jeff Parker, Phil Ranelin, James Singleton, Macie Stewart & Ryley Walker to name a few.

For this event charles is joined by his long-standing trio with Jim baker and john Tate. 

Jim Baker, previously recorded in settings ranging from duets to Ken Vandermark’s Territory Bands; from third-stream projects (with Guillermo Gregorio) to rock groups (with Janet Bean & the Concertina Wire). Having previously collaborated with reedists (Fred Anderson, Nicole Mitchell, Dave Rempis, Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams) and with various trios (with bassists Harrison Bankhead, Avreeayl Ra, Michael Zerang), Baker on both piano and analogue synthesizer have a “somewhat or somehow tuneful” character.

John Tate

A member of New York City’s creative music community, Brooklyn-residing bassist, composer, and educator John Tate has performed throughout North America, Central America, South America, Europe, and Australia with musicians including Von Freeman, Matt Wilson, Marquis Hill, Tony Malaby, Ben Monder, Jeff Parker, Carl Allen, Rodney Jones, Bill Carrothers, Victor Goines, and George Fludas, among others. During his time at Juilliard, Tate was an apprentice of distinguished bassist and pedagogue Ron Carter.

Photo by Jacob Hand.