SAT 8 & 9:30 - Michael Sarin w/Leo Traversa, Fima Ephron, Jerome Harris, Michael Blake
About This Event
At Bar Bayeux, drummer Michael Towne Sarin leads a free-jazz set with Leo Traversa, Fima Ephron, Jerome Harris and Michael Blake. Harris moves between electric and acoustic bass and favors line, pulse and ensemble function over display. Blake, a New York–based saxophonist and composer praised by Ben Ratliff as "an endlessly engaging improviser, and an inquisitive one," brings a sideman’s breadth to the group’s free-leaning context.
About the Artists
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.
Leo Traversa
Leo Traversa is a jazz musician heard in New York City’s small-room circuit, including sets at Bar Bayeux. In performance, he’s been part of free-jazz lineups led by drummer Michael Towne Sarin, alongside Fima Ephron, Jerome Harris, and saxophonist-composer Michael Blake.
Fima Ephron
Fima Ephron is a New York–based musician working in jazz and free improvisation, with a growing footprint in the city’s small-venue circuit. At Bar Bayeux, Ephron appears in drummer Michael Towne Sarin’s ensemble alongside Leo Traversa, Jerome Harris, and saxophonist-composer Michael Blake.
Jerome Harris
Jerome Harris is a jazz musician known in New York City circles for moving between electric and acoustic bass, with additional work on guitar, voice, and occasional lap steel and small percussion. His playing has appeared alongside figures such as Marty Ehrlich, Adam Kolker, Jeremy Stratton, and Owen Howard.