Ava Mendoza

07 Feb

[ February 16th, 2024 release on Hot Cup Records: Moppa Elliott’s Acceleration Due to Gravity – Jonesville ]

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Moppa Elliott’s Acceleration Due to Gravity Presents Jonesville. Nonet album to be released February 16, 2024 on Hot Cup Records

“It’s all so wild, so free, so … entertaining. You wonder why other bandleaders don’t seem to have this much fun all the time.” – Steve Greenlee, JazzTimes

“[Acceleration Due to Gravity] is music that has all the forward momentum of funk and hip-hop, but none of its predictability.” – Andy Hermann, DownBeat

Featuring: Moppa Elliott (DownBeat Critics Poll Rising Star Bassist, Composer, Arranger), Bobby Spellman (trumpet), Dave Taylor (trombone), Matt Nelson (alto saxophone), Stacy Dillard (tenor saxophone), Kyle Saulnier (baritone saxophone), Ava Mendoza (guitar), George Burton (piano), and Mike Pride (drums).

11 Oct

[ October the 16, 2020 release via Pyroclastic Records: Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain VI ]

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release date: 16.10.2020 via Pyroclastic Records

“Wooley’s investment [is] in the imaginative and emotional side of an experience that’s both physical and not.” — Justin Cober-Lake, PopMatters

“The prettiest, most progressive campfire music ever.” — Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times

Genre-defiant trumpet player and composer Nate Wooley brings together artists from seemingly disparate musical communities with the release of Seven Storey Mountain VI on Pyroclastic Records, the sixth iteration of his ecstatic song-cycle.