The Back Room

Join us on Mon, June 29, 7pm for Nathan Nakadegawa-Lee and Friends, TRIO Z +2 | tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/nathan-nakadegawa-lee-and-friends-trio-z-2

Nathan Nakadegawa-Lee - woodwinds
Celine Kang (NYC) - guitar
Isabelle Waldner Kalb - guitar
Jordan Glenn - drums

Born and raised in Oakland, California, saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer Nathan Nakadegawa-Lee embodies a striking mix of sounds deriving from improvised, vocal, blues, and jazz traditions. A graduate of The New School's Jazz and Contemporary Music program, Nathan has studied with luminaries such as Melissa Aldana, Darius Jones, Tivon Pennicot, David Glasser, Or Bareket, Jon Irabagon, Anat Cohen, Joshua Rubin, and Ismail Lumanovski. Nathan has taught at Oakland Summer Music, Oakland Public Conservatory, Claremont Middle School, and The Harmony Program in NYC, providing music education at no cost to students.

TRIO Z
Gianna Caudillo: acoustic bass
Julius Zimmerman: cello
Ali Ziyad: cello
Featuring
Lena Badhia: drums
Grace Basom: piano

TRIO Z, the Berkeley-based experimental string trio of bassist Gianna (Zakhary) Caudillo and cellists Ali Ziyad and Julius Zimmerman, is an unbridled conglomeration of its members' individual musical backgrounds (ranging from symphonic performance to free jazz), and their shared passion for improvisation and spontaneous composition.

They are joined by special guests Lena Badhia (drums) and Grace Basom (piano), close contemporaries and frequent collaborators who are not only members of the TRIO Z X-Banded Big Band, but accomplished composers and bandleaders in their own right.