YVONNE ROGERS QUARTET LIVE AT DUCK CREEK

RECORDED AUGUST 14TH 6PM

Yvonne Rogers - piano, Jonas Esser - drums, Kanoa Mendenhall - bass, and Stephane Clement - trumpet

Yvonne Rogers is a pianist, composer, and multimedia artist from Maine, now based in Brooklyn, New York. Described as a “Fresh, new voice on piano,” (Paul Acquaro, The Free Jazz Collective). She has performed at venues and festivals including the Jazz Gallery, Roulette Intermedium, the Blue Note, Mezzrow, Smalls, Bar Bayeux, the Kennedy Center, NYC Winter Jazz Fest, Jamboree (ES), Porgy and Bess (AT), Birdseye (CH), and the Rochester International Jazz Festival. Yvonne is a 2024 Next Jazz Legacy Awardee, a grant recognizing outstanding women in jazz founded by Terri Lyne Carrington and facilitated by New Music USA. Her debut album “Seeds” was released in 2023 on Relative Pitch Records and is available on Bandcamp and all other streaming platforms. She says “Seeds” is a practice in finding community, letting go of expectations, allowing ourselves and others the space to take risks, and welcoming the possibility that something magnificent might emerge. Yvonne’s work is rooted in improvisation and play. Growing up on the rural Maine coast, Yvonne began writing music that followed the meditative patterns and systems of nature before having any conventional understanding of theory or harmony. She carries this sense of creative abandon with her wherever she is in the world.