Jazz Guitar Improvisations w/ Nahum Zdybel Trio +
Ross Hammond with
Steve AdamsFriday, September 26, 2014
10:00pm – 11:30pm
Expanding the use of Jazz guitar
ABOUT NAHUM ZDYBEL
The Los Angeles-based Nahum Zdybel Trio, comprised of guitarist Nahum Zdybel, drummer Tina Raymond and bassist Emilio Terranova, explores songs with hyper-sensitive playfulness, reimagining hundred-year-old Tin Pan Alley melodies, recent indie rock songs and original compositions as baffling combustions of spontaneity and subtle cleverness. The trio entered the Los Angeles creative music scene in 2013 via the radically collaborative artistic nursery of California Institute of the Arts. Zdybel, whose “solo work and ensemble communication is…thrilling to witness” is a playful, melodic improviser who regards with equal fondness and irreverence his relationship with early jazz, hardcore punk and unstructured improvisation.
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Ross HammondGuitarist
Ross Hammond is serious about music and the message it carries. Hammond tries, through his compositions, to address the human condition and to deal with strong emotions. Hammond started playing guitar – a gift from his mother – at age 12, not long after moving from Lexington, KY, to Sacramento, CA. He wanted to play drums, but his mother advocated for the more portable guitar, a prescient choice given Hammond's extensive touring as an adult. Like many young guitarists, Hammond started playing funk and soul and rock music in high school. Then in college, his horizons expanded. In the last few years, the birth of his daughter has found him exploring childhood and fatherhood in his writing.
Hammond's 11th and most recent album is Cathedrals, released in June and featuring his quartet with saxophonist Vinny Golia, bassist Steuart Liebig and drummer Alex Cline. It's the sequel to Adored, his 2012 record with the same band. Hammond's next project is a suite for sextet called The Humanity Suite, based on silhouettes by artist Karen Walker.
The Sacramento News and Review called Hammond "one of Sacramento's greatest jazz generators and arguably its most accessible." He's performed with many reputable musicians, including saxophonist Oliver Lake; drummers Calvin Weston and Mike Pride; and bassist Ken Filiano. Hammond plays in a duo with drummer Scott Amendola called Lovely Builders and in a project called Electropoetic Coffee with poet Lawrence Dinkins. Upcoming tours will see him on stage with Dwight Trible and rising saxophone star Catherine Sikora.
http://www.rosshammond.com/Doors at 9:00pm
Show at 9:45pm
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Ken Filiano/ Steve Adams Duo at the Stone