patrick brennan • alto saxophone // Cooper-Moore • diddley-bo
On Ka’a Davis • guitar // Jason Kao Hwang • electric violin
Jason Kao Hwang, composer/violin/viola, imagines his musical experience of the Chinese language as the foundation of his creative instincts. His most recent releases include Soliloquies, Book of Stories, and The Human Rites Trio. As violinist, he has worked with William Parker, Henry Threadgill, Reggie Workman, Joëlle Leandre, Taylor Ho Bynum, Tomeka Reid, Anthony Braxton, Steve Swell, Pauline Oliveros, Butch Morris, and others.
Pianist, composer and instrument builder/designer Cooper-Moore became a pivotal member of the Free Jazz movement in the 1970s with the collective Apogee with David S. Ware & Marc Edwards. He’s written and performed for playwrights such as Rita Dove and Laurie Carlos, choreographers Joan Miller, Rod Rogers, Marlies Yearby, and Judith Jackson. He has led his own bands Triptych Myth and Digital Primitives and has been a central figure in William Parker’s In Order to Survive and Gerald Cleaver’s Black Host.
Guitarist and music designer with an interest on the other worldly, On Ka’a Davis is a card-carrying veteran of Sun Ra’s Arkestra, Donald Ayler’s septet, and Charles ‘Bobo’ Shaw’s Human Arts Ensemble. With his own groups The ‘Famous Original Djuke Music Players and the X-Ray Search Light Project, he fuses aspects rooted in pulse beat jazzes and psychedelia exploration, enhancing his revelations of visionary futures.