RDL+ and Rebecca Griffin Quartet

With their 2014 debut album, Más P'alla Va, RDL+ is building an original sound that embodies the members' collective ideas, inspirations, and histories. RDL+ is Ruthie Dineen on keys, Doug Lee on bass, Steve Weems on drums, plus(+) the Bay Area's best up-and-coming musicians. The group focuses on writing and playing original compositions, while taking both lyrical and open improvisations on the pieces. While maintaining an aesthetic stemming from traditional jazz, the group experiments with odd meters, timbre, form, and melodic ideas. Nonetheless, the exploratory nature of the group is always rooted in the essence of the composed or arranged pieces. http://www.facebook.com/RDLplus

Doug Lee, bass
Ruthie Dineen, piano
Steve Weems, drums
Luis Salcedo, guitar

Jazz vocalist Rebecca Griffin brings a rich, sultry sound to creative arrangements that put a new spin on jazz standards and reinvent pop/rock songs for a jazz setting. In 2013, the Rebecca Griffin Quartet released their debut studio album, featuring Rebecca's original arrangements of jazz standards, lesser known discoveries from the jazz catalogue, and music by Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, John Lennon and more. http://www.rebeccagriffin.com

Rebecca Griffin, vocals
Steve Blum, piano
Eric Vogler, bass
Rob Ewing, drums
Joe Hartnett, saxophone