Rhizome X People’s Music Supply Collaboration Number 6

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People’s Music Supply and Rhizome present their sixth showcase featuring improvisational musicians from the experimental music scenes of Philadelphia and D.C. They present three groups, composed of representatives from both cities. Tenor saxophonist Brian Settles leads the first performance. Settles can be found just about anywhere there’s jazz being played in D.C., comfortable at shaping the expansive vision of composers like Steve Arnold, leading the charged, Afro-Caribbean anthems of Reginald Cyntje or honking icy, haunting free music with Jason Moran or Michael Formanek. Settles’ own work as a leader is amorphous and pulsating, but surges with a kind of spiritual vibrancy. Dan Blackberg is a Philadelphia-based trombonist. He blends Klezmer folk traditions with more contemporary experimental sounds. Accordionist and pianist Simone Baron, who splits her time between the DMV and New York, writes music that is “ego-less, genre agnostic and without expectations” as CapitalBop’s Jackson Sinnenberg wrote about her in JazzTimes. Her works often blend and blur and multitude of musical traditions into something greater than the sum of its parts, while still maintaining the beauty of the individual influences. She performs in a trio with percussionist Keith Butler, Jr. and Philedphia-based violinist Samantha Xiao Cody.