Mitchell Park Bowl
600 EAST MEADOW DRIVE Palo Alto, CA 94304)

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Alexander Hawkins Quartet (w/Karl Evangelista, Lisa Mezzacappa, Jordan Glenn)

Jenny Scheinman (w/Carmen Staff, Adam Ratner, Tony Scherr, Mark Ferber)

Celebrated UK pianist Alexander Hawkins visits Palo Alto, joined by a crack quartet of local improvisers. Renowned violinist Jenny Scheinman presents music from her newest album, All Species Parade.

Alexander Hawkins
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Alexander Hawkins is a composer, pianist, organist, and bandleader who is ‘unlike anything else in modern creative music’. Regarded as one of his generation's most innovative, his own unique soundworld is shaped by a profound fascination with composition and structure, alongside a love of chance and open forms.

Hawkins can be heard live and on record with vast array of contemporary leaders of all generations, including the likes of Anthony Braxton, Joe McPhee, Wadada Leo Smith, Marshall Allen, Michael Formanek, Rob Mazurek, Chad Taylor, Taylor Ho Bynum, Harris Eisenstadt, Nicole Mitchell, Matana Roberts, Esperanza Spalding, Jonny Greenwood, and Shabaka Hutchings. For over a decade, he has also been noted for his performances in the bands of legendary South African drummer, Louis Moholo-Moholo, and Ethio-jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke.

Jenny Scheinman
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Scheinman is an acclaimed violinist and composer who spent thirteen years on the NYC downtown music scene, leading both her own bands, as well as working alongside artists ranging from Jason Moran to Brian Blade, Lucinda Williams to Lou Reed, among numerous others. The New York Times praised her “distinctive vision of American music, suffused with plainspoken beauty and fortified by country, gospel, and melting-pot folk, along with jazz and the blues.” Upon moving back to the Pacific Northwest, Scheinman was reawakened to the extraordinary biodiversity of the region known as “The Lost Coast,” where she was raised, a stretch of mud-slide- and earthquake-prone coastline cut off from the main thoroughfares. This would ultimately inspire Scheinman to write All Species Parade, an epic and sprawling double album with an A-list ensemble. Though the album does evoke a sense of pastoral wonder, it also strives to capture in Scheinman’s words, “a charged relationship to nature, a feeling of being part of something bigger than ourselves, powerful, and fragile, and constantly changing. Something alive. With All Species Parade, I set out to musically reflect that experience of awe.”

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