THURS 8 & 9:30 Matt Mitchell w/Adam Kolker, Jeremy Stratton, Jeff Williams
About This Event
Pianist and composer Matt Mitchell — a member of the Center for Improvisational Music faculty — leads a quartet at Bar Bayeux with saxophonist-composer Adam Kolker, drummer-composer-educator Jeff Williams and Jeremy Stratton. The billing places the evening in jazz and free music, foregrounding Mitchell’s compositional focus alongside Kolker’s saxophone voice and Williams’s rhythmic approach.
About the Artists
Matt Mitchell
Matt Mitchell is a pianist and composer working across classical, jazz, and free-improvised music in New York City. He appears at venues such as Roulette and Bar Bayeux, leading ensembles and moving easily between through-composed material and open forms.
Adam Kolker
Adam Kolker is a jazz saxophonist and composer known for his work in the jazz genre.
Jeremy Stratton
Jeremy Stratton is a New York City jazz musician whose work sits between modern jazz and freer improvisation. At Bar Bayeux he has appeared in small-group settings alongside artists such as Matt Mitchell, Adam Kolker, Jeff Williams, Glenn Zaleski, Ben Monder, Kayvon Gordon, Marty Ehrlich, and Jerome Harris.