8:00pm – Nicole McCabe Septet
World premiere of The Women Who Shaped Me, an original composition commissioned by the Los Angeles Jazz Society’s Jeff Clayton Memorial New Note Award

Nicole McCabe – sax/composition
Jon Hatamiya – trombone
Ethan Chilton – trumpet
Hailey Niswanger– tenor sax
Tina Raymond – drums
Christina Galisatus – piano
Logan Kane – bass

Nicole McCabe is an upcoming saxophonist and composer living in Los Angeles. Her work ‘The Women who Shaped Me’ consists of pieces that are inspired by different female figures that have made Nicole into the person she is today. Nicole wanted to challenge herself by arranging these original compositions for a septet featuring some of the best musicians in the LA jazz scene.

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9:15pm – Fire & Water Quintet
Fire and Water draws inspiration from Melford’s ongoing engagement with the iconoclastic work of the late visual artist Cy Twombly. The band’s name pays homage to the artist’s “For the Love of Fire and Water,” a series that combines his trademark vibrant scribbles and scrawled calligraphic texts

Myra Melford – piano
Mary Halvorson – guitar
Tomeka Reid – cello
Susie Ibarra – drums
Ingrid Laubrock – sax

“Among other things, Myra Melford is a master in the art of wringing sound out of color and line. An insatiably inventive pianist and composer, she has always found sustenance in modern art — notably the subversive scribbly works of Cy Twombly.” – Nate Chinen, WBGO