Trio Performance at Révéler Experiences in Richmond!

Joe Morris is a composer/improviser multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar, double bass, mandolin, banjo, banjouke electric bass and drums. He is also a recording artist, educator, record producer, concert producer/curator and author. His is considered to be one of the most original and important improvising musicians of our time. Down Beat magazine called him “the preeminent free music guitarist of his generation.” Will Montgomery, writing in The Wire magazine called him “one of the most profound improvisers at work in the U.S.” He is featured as leader, co-leader and sideman on 150 recordings to date. He has performed or recorded with John Zorn, Mary Halvorson, Tomeka Reid, Tim Berne, and many others.

Nicole Mitchell is an award-winning creative flutist, composer, conceptualist, bandleader, and educator. For over 20 years, Mitchell’s critically acclaimed Chicago-based Black Earth Ensemble has been her primary compositional laboratory. She is perhaps best known for her work as a flutist, having developed a unique improvisational language. More recently, as Professor of Composition and Computer Technologies at University of Virginia, Mitchell has added electronic instrumentation to that dialogue.