Named Northwest Emerging Artist of the Year by Earshot Jazz, Jahnvi Madan is an Indian American clarinetist, improviser and composer. As a bandleader, she has performed her music at several well known festivals, including the Washington D.C. Women in Jazz Festival, Westerlies Festival, and Earshot Jazz festival, as their youngest commissioned composer. She is the current Artist-in Residence at Town Hall Seattle. For this show, Jahnvi will be sharing a set of mostly originals, stemming from new instrumental jazz compositions to songwriting, and touching on themes of family, love, and loss, and what it means to have an open heart. Ahead of releasing her debut Album, “Soften”, this show marks the first time her whole band will be back together to perform, something they are all deeply excited about!The set will also include some dedications to Ellington and Kashmiri folk music.
Jonathan Paik is a New York-based pianist, composer, and improviser. Originally from Los Angeles, he aspires to play music that honors his lineages: both of that of his family heritage and that of the great tradition of Black American masters that are his primary influences on the piano. Jonathan is regarded as an exciting new voice in the New York City creative music scene and has been heard with Alfredo Colon, David Binney, Joe Morris, Jahnvi Madan, and many others. His current solo piano process stems from his interest in electronic music and granular processing. The result is his effort at synthesizing the methodologies and aesthetics of his favorite artists into new styles in real time. These particular pieces are inspired simultaneously by the musics of Cecil Taylor, Duke Ellington, Ikue Mori, Frank Ocean, and RP Boo.
Curated by Christopher Icasiano for Nonsequitur‘s NonSeq series.