Jonathan Kane is a downtown NYC drummer dude with a long track record swimming through the city’s huge delta of out-there performance music. In the early 80s he co-founded the Swans with Michael Gira, was the rhythmic thunder behind the massed-guitar armies of Rhys Chatham, and also spent time backing composer La Monte Young’s more rock-tempered excursions.

Kane’s newer solo works, 2005’s February and next week’s Jet Ear Party, are what I’d call a type of blues minimalism/maximalism. His knotty yet propulsive drumming lay a foundation for full-on guitar boogie drones that stretch and recede well past any traditional blues structure. Though somehow I still see John Lee and Howlin’ Wolf really digging these guys’ act.