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Transplanted from NY towards the Bay Area, the chamber jazz group Tin Hat Trio includes accordionist Rob Burger, guitarist Tag Orton, and violinist Carla Kihlstedt. The group’s exclusive blend of framework, improvisation, and modern classical, folk, globe, and jazz components shows each member’s various other performing encounters. Kihlstedt majored in …

Jazz pianist/composer Uri Caine brings an eclectic selection of disciplines and affects to his music. His personal Jewish history, his traditional and jazz teaching, and his fascination with consumer electronics combine in ambitious hybrids which are frequently challenging but constantly inventive. Caine was raised within an intellectual, open-minded family members …

Rob Burger was the accordionist within the chamber jazz group Tin Head wear Trio and it has toured with Costs Frisell, Don Byron, and Joey Baron, and appeared on Frisell’s Stories from the Much Aspect soundtrack. Burger examined traditional piano at Juilliard and explored different improvisational designs at the School …

NY City-based septet the Cellar and Stage describe their music as “garage-chamber,” but that descriptor may not do justice towards the group’s wide-ranging meld of designs. The band’s co-leaders, drummer/manufacturer Joseph Branciforte and guitarist Christopher Botta, pull from electronica, contemporary classical structure, fusion jazz, avant-prog rock and roll, and ambient …