WED 8 & 9:30 Two Miles A Day w/Hery Paz, Jacob Sacks, Eivind Opsvik, Connor Parks
About This Event
At Bar Bayeux, Hery Paz, Jacob Sacks, Eivind Opsvik and Connor Parks form a quartet of improvised and composed jazz. Paz and Parks work in the free-improvisation tradition and prioritize close listening and real-time structural choices. Sacks moves between arranged material and open form while Opsvik—bassist and composer—anchors the group with a compositional sense of pulse and texture.
About Two Miles A Day
Two Miles A Day is a free-jazz set at Bar Bayeux, led by saxophonist Hery Paz with pianist Jacob Sacks, bassist Eivind Opsvik, and drummer Connor Parks. The quartet moves between written fragments and open improvisation, with Paz and Parks leaning on the discipline of close listening and quick structural decisions. Sacks threads composed passages into looser forms, while Opsvik anchors the group’s shifts in tempo and harmony. It reflects a long New York tradition of small-room experimentation, where the composition is partly made in the moment.
About the Artists
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.
Jacob Sacks
Jacob Sacks is a jazz pianist and composer who works in the space between modern jazz and free improvisation. In New York City he appears at rooms like Bar Bayeux, where his projects often hinge on arrangement as much as spontaneity.
Eivind Opsvik
Born in Oslo, bassist and composer Eivind Opsvik was introduced to music at home. His father loved to play the saxophone and constantly spun records—everything from Ornette Coleman to Billie Holiday...
Connor Parks
Connor Parks is a New York City jazz artist associated with sets at Ornithology Jazz Club, where small-room interplay and close listening are part of the job. He has worked alongside musicians including Todd Herbert, Jeremy Manasia, Jason Clotter, Larry Banks, Anthony Pearlman, Brent Lerman, Jules Gardener, and Charlie Lincoln.