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Simone White colored is a vocalist and songwriter who also performs deeply personal and engagingly idiosyncratic music informed by jazz, blues, folk, pop, and electronic affects. White has informed journalists she didn’t start playing acoustic guitar until she was 22 years of age, and didn’t consider the instrument significantly until …

Guitarist Liberty Ellman mixes highly advanced post-bop jazz with components of funk and hip-hop. His music falls approximately inside the M-Base subculture birthed by alto saxophonist Steve Coleman. Blessed in London in 1971, but elevated in the us, Ellman became a dynamic person in the Bay Area’s creative community, using …

Delivered in 1971 to parents who have emigrated from India towards the U.S. within the ’60s, Bay Area-based composer and pianist Vijay Iyer provides led several specific combos, including Nature Organic, the Poisonous Prophets, as well as the Vijay Iyer Trio. All three groupings appeared in the musician’s 1995 debut …