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Nick Obando - Nick Obando is a saxophonist and a Bay Area native. His path to music came at a very young age when discovering a saxophone in his family’s closet. That journey began with symphonic music all the way through college where he studied jazz at a southern California State University. Moving back to Oakland he began to educate youth through different mediums. Obando also continues to be a student emerging himself in his Filipino culture by studying and teaching traditional folk music. Working in free improvisation he makes sure to keep a deep root in blues and R&B which will always be his first influence and love. Marshall Trammell - Raised in Oahu, Hawaii, Marshall Trammell's utilizes a Multi-Aesthetic approach to Improvisation as a framework for his development as a percussionist. His other projects include: (film) Decolonizing the Imagination: An Arts Practicum; (curation) Heavy Discipline: Duos and Interviews Music Series, The Displacement Project and Orbits: an cognitive embodiment video project; (research) Oakland Tenderness Project, a mutual aid, alternative currency and participatory research pilot project; and (composition) TTM-H, a Creative Music trio and RotorCraft: a Solo Project. |
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