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RECENT NEWS AND INFORMATION

Million Dollar Band / Bull Run single from Feeding Tube out.   Click here.

Review of Bloom at The Free Jazz Collective.  Click here.
 
Jim discusses Bloom at The Out Door.  Click here.

Fountain reviewed at Burning Ambulance.  Click here.

Kid Millions & Jim Sauter album titled Fountain out 14 December 2014 from Family Vineyard. For more information click here. Also, click here to read the one-sheet for Fountain.

Piece about Millions & Sauter at NPR. Click here.

Reviews of Fountain at The Quietus, All About Jazz and Free Jazz. Click titles.

Pictures from Millions & Sauter's 19 October 2014 gig here.

Kid Millions' website. Click here.

Article regarding Houston, Texas gig click here.



VIDEO AND AUDIO

 

DISCOGRAPHY

Kid Millions & Jim Sauter - Boanerges (Doubtmusic, 2013, CD)
Kid Millions & Jim Sauter - Fountain (Family Vineyard, 2014, LP)
Kid Millions & Jim Sauter - Bloom (Astral Spirits, 2015, Cassette)
Kid Millions & Jim Sauter - Million Dollar Band / Bull Run (Feeding Tube, 2016, 7")

Kid Millions & Jim Sauter - Safe And Sane (Family Vineyard, 2019, LP)


ABOUT

Kid Millions a.k.a. John Colpitts, perhaps better known as the drummer for Oneida, has also recorded and released several drums-only records under the name Man Forever. He and older/wiser fire-spitting saxist Jim Sauter are also members of the rockist band Scarcity Of Tanks. Here they appear in duo, with no over-arching structures to contend with, and let fly.

Sauter plays his sax amplified, with effects, and thus can often come on somewhat like a guitarist, though there's no mistaking his sound. If you've heard Borbetomagus or his work with Blue Humans, you'll recognize it immediately. Millions' drumming is indeed energetic, a non-stop series of press rolls and low end rumble, which occasionally sticks out when Sauter pauses for breath. When they're both going full-bore, their sounds seem to blend together into a smeared, feedback-laden mass.

Their debut Boanerges was released in 2012 on Japan's Doubt Music label.

- by Jeph Jerman

GIG HISTORY

001 - 02/03/2012 - Brooklyn, New York at Secret Project Robot - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with Chica Vas, Alien Whale

002 - 03/07/2012 - Brooklyn, New York at Secret Project Robot - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with Child Abuse, Normal Love

003 - 12/09/2012 - Brooklyn, New York at Death By Audio - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with Weasel Walter/Mary Halvorson/Peter Evans Trio, Finite State Machine

004 - 01/06/2013 - Brooklyn, New York at Public Assembly - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with Zs, Mick Barr, Hubble

005 - 05/02/2013 - Queens, New York at Knockdown Center - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with Stephen O’Malley, KTL, Body/Head, Prurient, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Oren Ambarchi, Alan Licht, Vatican Shadow, Pete Swanson, Mick Barr, Alberich, Pharmakon, Noveller, grassmass, Hiram Martinez

006 - 05/29/2013 - Brooklyn, New York at Littlefield - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with The Butchershop Quartet, Barbez

007 - 02/20/2014 - Brooklyn, New York at Trans Pecos - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with Invisible Things, Sunshine Soldier, Jeff Zeigler & Mary Lattimore Duo

008 - 03/06/2014 - Brooklyn, New York at Union Pool - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with Norman Westberg, Pontiak

009 - 08/08/2014 - Brooklyn, New York at Secret Project Robot - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with Plastic Crimewave Sound, Ed Askew Band, Tom Carter and Pat Murano

010 - 10/19/2014 - Brooklyn, New York at Death By Audio - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with Arto Lindsay Noise Quartet, Ornament

011 - 10/29/2014 - New Paltz, New York at My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with Matt Luczak and Mark Marinoff, Spreaders

012 - 03/03/2015- Brooklyn, New York at Union Pool - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with Yonatan Gat, Beach Creeps

013 - 06/03/2015- Brooklyn, New York at Palisades - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter

014 - 06/13/2015 - Austin, Texas at NMASS Festival at Salvage Vanguard Theater - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter

015 - 06/14/2015 - San Antonio, Texas at Paper Tiger - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter

016 - 06/15/2015 - Houston, Texas at Avant Garden - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter

017 - 07/15/2015 - Brooklyn, New York at Stoop (BRIC House) - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter

018 - 10/04/2015 - Brooklyn, New York at Secret Project Robot - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with GOAT and Kyozin Yueni Dekai 

019 - 11/11/2015 - Montreuil, France at  Instants Chavires - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter

020 - 11/12/2015 - Brussels, Belgium at  Les Ateliers Claus - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter

021 - 11/13/2015 - Amsterdam, Netherlands at OCCII- Kid Millions & Jim Sauter

022 - 11/14/2015 - Kortrijk, Belgium at Cinepalace - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter

023 - 11/15/2015 - Geneva, Switzerland at Cave 12 - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter

024 - 12/1/2015 - Brooklyn, New York at Palisades - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with Chris Pitsiokis Unit, Patrick Higgins, Tongues, Ashcan Orchestra

  

025 - 2/5/2016 - Kingston, New York at the Anchor - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter

026 - 4/8/2016 - Rochester, New York at the Small World Books - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter

027 - 4/9/2016 - Guelph, Ontario (Canada) at Kazoo! Fest 2016 - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter 

028 - 6/5/2016 - Montreal, Quebec (Canada) at Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival -  Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with Curse Purse, Shining Wizard, JLK 

029 - 06/10/2015- Brooklyn, New York at Union Pool - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with Spray Paint, Running, Beech Creeps, Matchess

   

030 - 9/9/16 - Hopscotch Music Festival - Raleigh, North Carolina - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter 

031 - 9/15/16 - Brooklyn, New York at Silent Barn - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with Nick Millevoi's Desertion Trio, Ava Mendoza's Unnatural Ways 

 

032 - 9/20/17 at Trans Pecos - Brooklyn New York - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with Rivener, Samara Lubelski

033 - 10/8/17 at FringeArts - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter  - part of the October Revolution of Jazz & Contemporary Music series

034 - 1/22/18 - at Trans Pecos - Brooklyn New York - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with True Dreams, Brian Chase & Lisa Shconberg

035 - 7/24/18 - at The Footlight Bar - Ridgewood, NY - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter 

036 - 7/25/18 - at Jerry's On Front - Philadelphia, PA - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter 

037 - 7/26/18 - at Collision - Pittsburgh, PA - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter  

038 - 7/27/18 - at Rhizome - Washington, DC  - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter 

039 - 10/29/23 - at P.I.T. - Brooklyn, NY - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter 

040 - 3/18/24 - at Artists Space - New York, NY - Kid Millions & Jim Sauter with Victoria Shen, Tom Carter, Jutta Koether & Patrick Derivaz, and Reg Bloor 

 
PHOTOS 

by Lisa Corson in Brooklyn, New York 2012:

  
 
by Hans Vander Linden at Les Ateliers Claus in Brussels, Belgium 11/12/2015: