The Premazzi/Nasser Quartet will be playing original music from their album 'From What I Recall' as well as some new material that they will be recording right after this tour!

Tickets for tonight are $20 each (a $2 per ticket processing fee will be added to your purchase).

Featuring:

Kyle Nasser - tenor and soprano saxophones
Simona Premazzi - piano
Noah Garabedian - bass
Jay Sawyer - drums

This event will also be livestreamed on BOP STOP's Youtube Channel at showtime. Accessing the stream is free but donations are encouraged and directly support the band.

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Italian pianist Simona Premazzi and Boston native saxophonist Kyle Nasser met in New York and found themselves on gigs together over the last decade. Formalizing their musical partnership as a collaborative entity in 2021, they teamed with bassist Noah Garabedian and drummer Jay Sawyer to explore their own take on highly melodic modernist jazz blended with harmonies and techniques from classical music. From the major jazz venues in New York, to festivals around the US and South America, the Premazzi / Nasser Quartet further defined their sound, built on lustrous melodies, vivid compositions and a dynamic group aesthetic.

A native of New Bedford, MA, Kyle Nasser has been described as possessing, "superlative musicianship as a performer, writer and a bandleader…ardent creativity and urbane artistic composure” (Hrayr Attarian, All About Jazz). Since moving to New York City in 2010, he has played at some of the city's most prestigious venues - including the Blue Note, Smalls, Iridium, 55 Bar, Lunatico, Baand Cornelia St. Cafe - and has toured in the U.S. and South America. In addition to his eponymous group, he plays with and composes for the collectives Beekman and Triple Blind. With the former, he's been nominated for Chile's Premios Pulsar award for best jazz album, and with the latter, he was the recipient of Chamber Music America's New Jazz Works grant for 2021. About his last album Ed Enright says in DownBeat, “Cycling rhythms and recurrent melodic themes propel the saxophonist’s 13 original compositions and one cover through an ever-evolving terrain of advanced harmony and raw emotion…Persistent Fancy is cerebral without being pretentious, gnarly but far from vulgar.” His latest project, led with pianist Simona Premazzi recently released their acclaimed debut album, From What I Recall, on Origin's OA2 imprint.

A fearless modernist composer and improviser with a deeply lyricism at her core, New York based pianist Simona Premazzi has developed an impressive body of work as a composer and bandleader. Premazzi performed in all major New York jazz venues including the historic and prestigious Village Vanguard, jazz festivals around the US, South America and abroad. Highlights of her musical path include a few years collaboration with The Greg Osby 4 and with The Jeremy Pelt 5et. Among the many, she has performed, toured and/or recorded with: Jeremy Pelt, Greg Osby, Dayna Stephens, Mark Shim, Tineke Postma, Melissa Aldana, Seamus Blake, Wayne Escoffery, Kyle Nasser, Billy Drummond, Victor Lewis, Ari Hoenig, Nasheet Waits, Clovis Nicolas and many more fine artists.

www.kylenasser.com
www.simonapremazzi.com