10th Annual Montavilla Jazz Festival Presents: Nicole McCabe Quartet

Sat, Sep 02

Nicole McCabe, Saxophones Sam Reid, Piano Logan Kane, Bass Myles Martin, Drums McCabe’s Los Angeles-based band plays music from her recent album Landscapes released on Spanish label Fresh Sounds New Talent. Nicole McCabe is a saxophonist and composer from Marin County, California. She works and lives in Los Angeles, where she earned a Master’s from University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, studying with Vince Mendoza, Patrice Rushen, and Russell Ferrante. She previously earned a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies at Portland State University, where she received the William Bradford and Janet Hughes Mersereau Jazz Scholarship. A prolific collaborator, McCabe has played with David Binney, John Escreet, Anna Butterss, Henry Solomon, Sasha Berliner, Louis Cole, and Thumpasaurus. She recently completed Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead residency at the Kennedy Center, where she studied under Jason Moran. While at USC, she received the Los Angeles Jazz Society’s Jeff Clayton Memorial New Note Award and the Keep an Eye International Jazz Award.