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Empty Cage Quartet | 2015 Angel City Jazz Festival

Empty Cage plays Angel City next Thursday!

The Lost Trio + The Empty Cage Quartet

Empty Cage + The Lost Trio at Studio Grand in Oakland next Friday!

Video from our recent LP release concert at The Stone, NYC

ECQ at The Stone, NYC, 10/7/2012
Photo by Garth Van Dam Steinheimer

ECQ at The Stone, NYC, 10/7/2012

Photo by Garth Van Dam Steinheimer

“Avoid the Obvious”
Empty Cage Quartet
Douglass Street Music Collective
Brooklyn, NY 
October 6, 2012
Shot by Kevin Reilly

NEW LP/Digital Download from the Empty Cage Quartet

Empty Cage Quartet, a tight-knit West Coast avant-jazz outfit including trumpeter Kris Tiner, reedist Jason Mears, bassist Ivan Johnson and drummer Paul Kikuchi, boasts an admirably wide dynamic range, encompassing funky blare and chamber-style intimacy. This week the group plays two local gigs in support of a new limited-edition, self-titled LP on Prefecture Music. Sharing the bill on Oct 6 are the trios Cacaw and Killer Kate.
Time Out New York

Oblige the Oblivious

Click the link above for a preview of the opening track from our new self-titled LP, available on Oct 1 from Prefecture Records (www.prefecturerecords.com)