Gabrielle Cavassa with Jeff Parker, feat. Noa Jamir

Name: Gabrielle Cavassa with Jeff Parker, feat. Noa Jamir
Start: 2024-10-22T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Marigny Opera House

Schedule

Tue Oct 22 2024 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Marigny Opera House | New Orleans, LA

Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Performance at 8:00PM | Doors at 7:30PM
Suggested Donation: $20 - General Admission // $10 - Student, senior, etc.
None turned away for lack of funds, no pressure

Gabrielle Cavassa with Jeff Parker
Opening Act : Noa Jamir
Noa Jamir opens for jazz vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa, along with electric guitarist Jeff Parker. Intimate, exploratory music that pushes the boundaries of genre and sound.
Gabrielle Cavassa is a singer. “Her voice gets under your skin,” wrote Stereophile, “It is idiosyncratic, but it is trustworthy in its clarity and almost physical in its intimacy… her intuitive interpretations and riveting voice make you sit very still in your chair."
Cavassa won the International Sarah Vaughan Jazz Vocal competition in 2021 after the independent release of her eponymous debut record in 2020. She was ushered into the spotlight through her collaboration with renowned saxophonist Joshua Redman on his 2023 record ‘where are we’. In a five-star album review by Downbeat, Cavassa is hailed as “a young singer with a deep, rich, and fragile voice…a star in the making.” In a separate article Downbeat writes that Cavassa’s work with Redman “evokes another, historic saxophone-vocal pairing, that of Lester Young and Billie Holiday.”
Born in Escondido California of Italian descent, Cavassa began obsessively listening to records from a young age. Largely self-taught, she developed a unique approach to singing that would characterize her later success. Cavassa received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from San Francisco State University, but says that her “real education” came from playing San Francisco jazz clubs throughout her college years. In 2017, Cavassa moved to New Orleans, which shaped and deepened her relationship to storytelling and the blues. She created her first studio record in New Orleans alongside producer and drummer Jamison Ross. In 2023, following the release of ‘where are we’, Cavassa began touring with the Joshua Redman Group, a collection of several of today’s most exciting young players that has performed extensively across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. She was featured alongside Redman on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series earlier this year.
In performance and songwriting, Cavassa’s expression contains a vulnerability that reaches at the crux of our humanity. Her music is steeped in sensuality, melancholy, and humor; listening to one of her original songs feels like opening a page of her diary.
Jeff Parker is recognized as one of contemporary music’s most versatile and innovative electric guitarists and composers. With a prolific output characterized by musical ideas of angularity and logic, he works in a wide variety of mediums - from pop, rock and jazz to new music - using ideas informed by innovations and trends in both popular and experimental forms. He creates works that explore and exploit the contrary relationships between tradition and technology, improvisation and composition, and the familiar and the abstract.
His sonic palette may employ techniques from sample-based technologies, analog and digital synthesis, and conventional and extended techniques from over 40 years of playing the guitar.
An integral part of what has become known as “The Modern Chicago Sound”, he is a longtime member of the influential indie band Tortoise, and is also a founding member of Isotope 217˚ and Chicago Underground. A look at his extensive work as a collaborator and session musician offers a glimpse into Mr. Parker’s diversity. This list includes: Andrew Bird, Meshell Ndegeocello, Joshua Redman, Toumani Diabate, George Lewis, Bennie Maupin, Nicole Mitchell, Peter Erskine, Carmen Lundy, Makaya McCraven, Vijay Iyer, Yo La Tengo, Daniel Lanois, Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band, Jason Moran, Joey DeFrancesco, Nels Cline, Charles Earland, Ken Vandermark, Dave Douglas, Fred Anderson, Tom Zé, Clipping, and hundreds more.
Parker has released several albums as a leader, all to critical acclaim, including: Like-Coping (2003), The Relatives (2005) Bright Light In Winter (2012), The New Breed (2016), Slight Freedom (2016), Suite For Max Brown (2020), Forfolks (2021) and Mondays At The Enfield Tennis Academy (2022). The New Breed and Slight Freedom were named two of the Top 10 Jazz releases of 2016 by The New York Times, and The New Breed was named the Top Jazz Album of 2016 in The London Observer. Suite For Max Brown (2020), debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard Jazz Chart, and was included on numerous year-end Best Of lists, including WIRE Magazine, MAGNET Magazine, and The Guardian. Renowned contemporary music ensemble Dal Niente premiered Parker’s composition “Water On Glass” at 2017’s Ear Taxi Festival.
Branching out into the role of record producer, he has worked with Jeremy Cunningham on The Weather Up There, Paul Bryan on Cri$el Gems, and Anteloper on Pink Dolphins.
As a film composer, Parker has scored several documentaries and contributed music to feature films and games.
An associate member of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1995, Parker was awarded the United States Artist’s Fellowship in 2022.
Louisiana native Noa Jamir knows how it feels to live inside out— to live with her heart wide open. In doing so, she has been able to connect with people across the world, one tender song at a time.
After dropping out her last semester of college in early 2023, Noa felt embarrassed to tell her friends about her struggles with mental health. Consequently, the first half of the year was incredibly lonely as she watched her peers move on without her. In February of that year, Jamir wrote a song called “Subside”, a song about being on the outside of everything you’ve once known, and learning who you are on your own. It became the centerpiece of her debut album, CICADA, a compact, 8-track record chronicling the past couple years of the songwriter’s life. The record was released on Final Girl Records on July 12, 2024, and has since received critical acclaim, being named one of Stereogum’s ‘Albums of Note.'
Alongside recording, Jamir also performs around New Orleans and Lafayette, and has recently taken the stage to French Quarter Fest, Essence Fest, and the Acadiana Center of the Arts to perform in the 2024 NXT series.