Brandon López Trio | Vision Festival 25 (1 of 3)

Brandon Lopez - bass / Gerald Cleaver - drums / Steve Baczkowski - woodwinds

Filmed and recorded on Fri, July 30, 2021 for AFA Vision Festival 25 at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY.

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Brandon Lopez is a New York-based composer and bassist working at the fringes of jazz, free improvisation, noise and new music. His music has been praised as “brutal” (Chicago Reader) and “relentless” (The New York Times). From the New York Philharmonic's David Geffen Hall to the DIY basements of Brooklyn, Lopez has worked beside many luminaries of jazz, classical, poetry, and experimental music, including Fred Moten, John Zorn, Okkyung Lee, Ingrid Laubrock, Tony Malaby, Tyshawn Sorey, Bill Nace, Chris Potter, Edwin Torres, Tom Rainey, Cecilia Lopez, Sun Ra Arkestra, Susan Alcorn, Mette Rasmussen, and many others.


Steve Baczkowski is an improviser, saxophonist, and multi-wind instrumentalist. Baczkowski began playing alto saxophone at age eight and switched to baritone by the time he was twelve. He studied music in high school at Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts and went on to studies in music, saxophone performance, literature, and ethnomusicology at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1994 to 1999. In 1999, Baczkowski became the music director of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, N.Y, where he has since produced and presented hundreds of concerts of contemporary music as well as numerous community-based artist residencies.


New York, Detroit-bred drummer, composer, and bandleader Gerald Cleaver is among the most agile and wide-ranging first-call musicians on the 21st century jazz scene. As a sideman, he has worked with everyone from Jeremy Pelt, Craig Taborn, Miroslav Vitous, and Ivo Perelman to Matthew Shipp, William Parker, and Tomasz Stanko, to name a scant few. He has co-led recordings with Lotte Anker, Andrew Bishop, and Taylor Ho Bynum among others. His own dates, including Adjust, Gerald Cleaver's Detroit, Be It as I See It, and Live at Firehouse 12, reveal a drummer whose discipline is equanimous with his appetite for taking risks.



Film production by Moon Lasso: http://moonlasso.com/

Audio by Stephen Schmidt.


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