SLAM DUNK:
Set #1:
Ross Hammond Quartet
Ross Hammond-guitar
Vinny Golia-reeds
Steuart Liebig-bass
Alex Cline-drums
Sacramento guitarist
Ross Hammond has been playing music on large stages and in small corners on the West Coast and beyond for the past decade.
He has received the Sacramento News and Review music award for Best Area Jazz Musician in 2008, 2009 and 1999 (with Chili Palmer Project) and received a Critic’s Choice award for Special Achievement in 2007.
”
Ross Hammond is a man who can probably express himself with a guitar better than most of us can with the English language...”
-Sacramento News and Review, 2009
“Covering an eclectic variety of tunes with a cohesive sonic sensibility, Hammond merges rock, jazz and free improvisation into a cohesive collection beyond category.”
-Troy Collins, www.allaboutjazz.com
Set #2: Swarm Intelligence (DEBUT)
Grex (
Karl Evangelista/Rei Scampavia)
w/
Phillip Greenlief-reeds
Cory Wright-reeds
Dan Seamans-bass
Jordan Glenn-drums
Swarm intelligence (swawrm in-tel-i-juhns) n. 1. the mechanism whereby the actions of individual systems add up to the complex behavior of a group, 2. a sextet synthesizing the duo Grex with the instrumentation and rhythmic concept of modern jazz (reeds/bass/drums), evoking the timbres and improvisational acumen of the likes of the Paul Motian Trio, Liberation Music Orchestra, Marion Brown, and Beenie Maupin while tethering itself to the multi-idiomatic sensibilities of contemporary chamber pop.
Cost: $5