Expect a wild ride from the Hard Rubber Orchestra’s Saturday (October 1) concert at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts’ Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre.

Vancouver’s leading avant-jazz big band is never less than thrilling, but this time out it’s enlisted Quebec composer and guitarist René Lussier to contribute a new long-form composition, We Will See. With a title like that we don’t dare predict how it will sound, but past Lussier undertakings have been rhythmically extroverted, texturally abrasive, and occasionally unexpectedly tender. A bonus is the all-star opening act: Lussier with trumpeter JP Carter, cellist Peggy Lee, pianist Paul Plimley, and drummer Dylan van der Schyff.