SAT 8 & 9:30 - Caleb Wheeler Curtis w/Emmanuel Michael, Michael Sarin, Hery Paz, Colson Jimenez
About This Event
Caleb Wheeler Curtis leads a small-group quintet at Bar Bayeux, favoring open forms and quick shifts in texture that prioritize collective motion and real-time decision making. The lineup — Emmanuel Michael, Michael Sarin, Hery Paz and Colson Jimenez — functions as a responsive ensemble in which Curtis often steers the group's listening and the music emphasizes risk and conversation over fixed arrangements.
About the Artists
Caleb Wheeler Curtis
Caleb Wheeler Curtis is a New York City–based jazz artist whose work sits in the overlap of free jazz and experimental improvisation. At Bar Bayeux, he leads small-group sets that prioritize collective motion and quick shifts in texture, drawing on the presence of collaborators like Emmanuel Michael, Michael Sarin, Hery Paz, and Colson Jimenez.
Emmanuel Michael
Michael is a full-stack developer with 7+ years of experience.
Michael Sarin
Michael Towne Sarin is a jazz drummer associated with New York City’s avant‑garde and free‑music circles. At Bar Bayeux, he appears both as a sideman in Caleb Wheeler Curtis’s open‑form quintet and as a leader, shaping sets that rely on quick changes in texture and group listening.
Hery Paz
Hery Paz is a New York City–based jazz musician working in the free-jazz and improvised tradition. He appears at Bar Bayeux, including in Caleb Wheeler Curtis’s quintet alongside Emmanuel Michael, Michael Sarin, and Colson Jimenez.
Colson Jimenez
Colson Jimenez is a New York City–based jazz musician working at the intersection of jazz and free improvisation. At Bar Bayeux, he has appeared in Caleb Wheeler Curtis’s quintet alongside Emmanuel Michael, Michael Sarin, and Hery Paz, in sets built around open forms and quick shifts in texture.