Racer Session #585 | Steph Richards | October 20, 7-9pm @ Gallery 1412

This Sunday we are so thrilled to welcome a new Seattle arrival, the great improviser & trumpeter Steph Richards! She will be presenting her quartet “supersonic plane” featuring Jai Kobi Kaleo'Okalani (guitar), Kelsey Mines (bass), and Andrew Munsey (drumset).

“A rising force in avant-garde jazz” (Jazz Times), Steph Richards is a dynamic experimentalist known for her innovative approach to the trumpet and interdisciplinary expression as a composer. She has collaborated with visionaries ranging from Henry Threadgill, Anthony Braxton and John Zorn to art pop luminaries Yoko Ono, St. Vincent, David Byrne and Laurie Anderson.  Her work as a composer is characterized by The New York Times as “boldly inventive…compos[ing] in ways that standard notation could never document” and her works span interactions with film, poetry, theatre, dance and scent. As a collaborator she has performed with progressive artists in jazz including Ravi Coltrane, Jason Moran, Nicole Mitchell, Mary Halvorson, Tomeka Reid and Jeff Parker while her conducting work, informed by the concept of Butch Morris’ "Conduction" has taken her to groups around the world where she continues to push the boundaries of musical expression. She’s a founding member of Bang on A Can’s Asphalt Orchestra, and has worked with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Braxton’s Tricentric Orchestra, Threadgill’s Kestra and the Kronos Quartet. Steph is currently on faculty at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her latest record “Power Vibe” (Northern Spy, 2024) has been heralded as “a halcyon force on the expanding concepts of free music…making Power Vibe easily the most emboldened and venturesome statement of her ascendant career” (All About Jazz). Steph is a Yamaha artist.

For more info, check out https://www.stephrichards.com/.