About this Event
NYC's unique jazz prayer service, Sundays at 5 since 1965. All are welcome. Free to attend!
This week, we welcome Emi Makabe (voice), Matt Mitchell (piano), and Kim Cass (bass)
About Emi Makabe
Emi Makabe is a Japanese composer, vocalist, and shamisen player based in
New York City. Her music blends jazz, pop, rock, classical, and improvisation with
her Japanese musical roots. After moving to New York in 2008, she earned a
Bachelor of Music from City College of New York and a Master from the Aaron
Copland School of Music.
Her debut album, Anniversary, was released in 2020 under Dave Douglas’
Greenleaf Music, and her second album, Echo, will be released in May 2025 by
Sunnyside Records. The album features guest artists Bill Frisell, Jason Moran,
and Meshell Ndegeocello, alongside her quartet: Thomas Morgan, Vitor
Gonçalves, and Kenny Wollesen. Emi performs internationally, including at the
Copenhagen Jazz Festival (2018), tours in Japan (2023 & 2024), and a 2022 UK
tour with a master class at the Royal Academy of Music. She is a grantee of
Chamber Music America and a Steinway-associate educator.
About Matt Mitchell
Matt Mitchell is a pianist and composer whose creative practice exists in the nexus
between myriad strains of acoustic, electric, composed, and improvised new music.
He has released several forward-thinking, critically acclaimed, and influential albums
as a leader on Pi Recordings, Screwgun Records, and Out of Your Head Records,
and together with Kate Gentile he runs Obliquity Records. He is a member of
several significant and acclaimed creative music ensembles, led by Dan Weiss,
Miles Okazaki, Ches Smith, Anna Webber, and others.
He has a longstanding association with Tim Berne, and he plays and has played
extensively in the ensembles of many major figures in improvised music, including
Dave Douglas, Steve Coleman, David Binney, John Hollenbeck, Miguel Zenon,
Rudresh Mahanthappa, Linda Oh, Jonathan Finlayson, Mario Pavone, and Darius
Jones. Awards he has received include the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the Doris
Duke Impact Award, and a Shifting Foundation grant.
About Kim Cass
Kim Cass, originally from Bar Harbor, Maine, developed his musical language
precociously as a virtuoso jazz bassist. An utterly unique improvisational thinker,
his early years were spent producing solo recordings of upright bass in electronic
composed settings.
After receiving his Bachelor's in music from the New England Conservatory in
Boston, Massachusetts, Kim relocated to San Francisco and then New York City.
He has recorded and performed with pianist/ composer Matt Mitchell,
saxophonists John Zorn and Noah Preminger, and multi-intrumentalist/composer
Tyshawn Sorey among others. Kim is on the teaching faculty for lessons at the New
School and has many visiting students. He currently is focusing on composing music
for the bass and other instruments in new and inventive ways, showcasing a unique
style of detailed handwritten notation.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Saint Peter's Church, 619 Lexington Avenue, New York, United States
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