Reconnaissance Fly + Actual Trio

Reconnaissance Fly is a band of goofball composers and superhero sidemen creating prog rock nerd jazz outside the recommended cheese.
The five members of Reconnaissance Fly are Brett Carson on keyboards; Rich Lesnik playing clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano and tenor saxophones; Polly Moller with voice, flutes and guitar; Larry the O on the drums, and Tim Walters on bass guitar and electronics. Their new EP, Off By One, captures the band in an introspective mode with two completely instrumental tracks, and lyrics from Linear A inscriptions, poetry by Siegfried Sassoon, and a spam-ified concert review.
ACTUAL TRIOJohn SchottDan SeamansJohn Hanes
Debut CD: Actual Trio (Tzadik 4011)Produced by Hans Wendl (Bill Frisell, Don Byron, Charlie Haden)
“The musicians fuse blissful movements with soul-blues inferences and roomy arrangements, often touched with searching attributes and the leader's funky breakouts.” –AllAboutJazz
“This is one of the most engaging, and humorous, guitar recordings I’ve run into all year. Seek this one out.” - Cadence
“With a bright and bold, slightly twangy sound, Schott grazes rock, blues, Thelonious Monk and James “Blood” Ulmer with lithe, original, single-note lines full of swing, surprise and humor. If you like swinging jazz guitar with zany, eccentric bent, see this threesome.” –Paul de Barros, Seattle Times
Forthcoming CD recorded December 2016 at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, produced by Hans Wendl.
Notable PerformancesOther Minds Festival 2015, SF Jazz CenterFive year stand playing the first Sunday each month at the Actual Cafe, Oakland.
West Coast Tour November 2015The Royal Room, SeattleVintage Drum Shop, PortlandSam Bond’s, EugeneCrib Concerts, ArcataBakersfield Jazz SocietySohO Brewing, Santa BarbaraEagle Rock Center for the Arts, Los Angeles
East Coast Tour October 2016The Stone, New YorkThe Owl Music Parlor, BrooklynOutpost 186, CambridgeFirehouse 12, New Haven
John Schott has records on Knitting Factory Works, Tzadik, Songlines, and New World Recordings, and his own label Smash The State. There are also three CDs with T.J. Kirk, two with Junk Genius, and recordings with Ben Goldberg, John Zorn, Tom Waits, The Baguette Quartette, Frank London and Steven Bernstein.
Dan Seamans: Co-founder of the New Klezmer Trio, credited with pioneering the Radical Jewish Culture movement. They released three CDs, all of which have been re-released on Tzadik.
John Hanes has played and recorded with Etta James, Otis Clay, Freddie Roulette, Barbara Morrison, Fillmore Slim, Henry Kaiser, Victor Krummenacher, Orchestra Nostalgico, Chrome, Ronnie Montrose, Jorma Kaukonen, Pearl Harbor and the Explosions, Irving Fields and Richard Thompson.