Information
- Members:
- JASON MEARS
alto saxophone/clarinet
KRIS TINER
trumpet/flugelhorn
PAUL KIKUCHI
drumset/percussion
IVAN JOHNSON
contrabass - Genre:
- jazz/experimental/new music
- Hometown:
- Los Angeles/Bakersfield/New York/Seattle
- Record Label:
- Clean Feed, pfMENTUM, Nine Winds
Favorite Pages
Events
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- Empty Cage Quartet @ The Jazz ...
The Jazz Bakery
Monday, May 25 at 8:00pm - Empty Cage Quartet @ The Phara...
The Pharaoh's Den
Saturday, May 23 at 8:00pm - Jazz @ Metro Galleries
Metro Galleries
Friday, May 22 at 8:00pm
Discography
Empty Cage Quartet The new record is out now on Clean Feed... listen and buy here!
www.cleanfeed-records.com
Gravity is the new release by the Empty Cage Quartet, a group that The Wire magazine has called "one of the best things in jazz to emerge in the new millennium." Saxophonist Jason Mears, trumpeter Kris ...
Empty Cage Quartet Two big announcements coming soon... stay tuned!
Empty Cage Quartet Here's the JazzTimes review of our CD Day of the Race, from March 2006...
jazztimes.com
There are times when a pessimist could propose to me, without fear of rebuttal, that jazz sunk everlastingly into the depths of posthistoricism at the precise moment Wynton Marsalis signed his first recording contract. ...
Empty Cage Quartet Empty Cage Quartet: Gravity. Coming soon on Clean Feed Records. Here's a preview of the album art by Kio Griffith...
Empty Cage Quartet Exclusive preview of the upcoming Empty Cage + Soletti/Besnard album on Rude Awakening Présente!
www.lastfm.fr
EMPTY CAGE QUARTET [MTKJ: JASON MEARS/KRIS TINER/PAUL KIKUCHI/IVAN JOHNSON] - Live At The Sanctuary [DVD] (MediaSanctuary; USA) The Empty Cage Quartet are originally from southern California and feature Jason Mears on alto sax, clarinet & flute, Kris Tiner on trumpet & flugel, Ivan Johnson double...
Empty Cage Quartet New sextet CD with French duo Besnard/Soletti is nearly done... 'Take Care of Floating' will be released in early Fall on Rude Awakening Présente: http://www.rude-awakening.org
www.rude-awakening.org
Empty Cage Quartet New video from our recent gig at the Pharaoh's Den in Riverside, just posted to our FB Page - check the AMAZING live video projections by VJFranzK!
www.youtube.com
This is my machine which warps musicians into the fourth dimension! Well, at least it looks as if it does ;-) I do video projections for all types of concerts in the LA area.
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Empty Cage Quartet Jazz Bakery pics posted...
kristiner.blogspot.com
Some photo evidence here from last Monday's hit at the sadly-soon-to-close Jazz Bakery in LA, most of them shot by our friend Allen Glass (he's in the green plaid jacket in the third pic below).
