Eliot Cardinaux / Jeb Bishop

Die Letzte Posaune (The Last Trombone)

Eliot Cardinaux: text, spoken word, creaturely body, sound & video production

Jeb Bishop: trombones, textual & auditory wisdom

"...und dasselbe plötzlich, in einem Augenblick, zur Zeit der letzten Posaune. Denn es wird die Posaune schallen, und die Toten werden auferstehen unverweslich, und wir werden verwandelt werden."

—Lutherbibel 1912

Video shot on location in Northampton, MA in front of the "Women of Northampton" mural on Masonic St.

Jeb Bishop has performed, toured and recorded with groups including the Vandermark Five, the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls, Fred Lonberg-Holm's Terminal Four, School Days, Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra, Globe Unity Orchestra, The Engines, and his own Jeb Bishop Trio and Quartet. He also co-led the Lucky 7s project with New Orleans-based trombonist Jeff Albert, and is a member of the Boston-based cooperative quintet Cutout.

Eliot Cardinaux is a poet, pianist, composer, and improviser working at the edges of the lyric and improvised music. The author of 8 poetry collections, Eliot has also produced and performed on over a dozen albums of original music. As founding editor of The Bodily Press, Eliot has released books by Nathaniel Mackey, Joseph Donahue, Sarah Menefee, Tasha Robbins, John Phillips, Deja Rene Carr (AKA Mal Devisa), and others. A collection of poetry, A Species of This Invaded World (Bodily Press, 2025), is forthcoming.