Bassist Emma Dayhuff makes her first appearance as a leader at Cafe Coda leading a new trio featuring Isaiah Collier and Vincent Davis. Dayhuff's trio mixes soulful lyricism with bold sonic experimentation over a weave of familiar melodies and untested original music.
Emma is the most recent bassist to graduate from the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance in Los Angeles and is the fifth woman to ever participate in the prestigious program. She has performed around the world including at the Newport Jazz Festival, the Sant’Anna Jazz Festival in Sardinia, and Dizzy’s Jazz Club in New York.
Upon graduating from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2009, she moved to Chicago where she spearheaded a local funk band, toured with a bluegrass band, worked in Chicago’s blues scene, and was embraced by Chicago’s avant garde jazz community through her mentors Vincent Davis and keyboardist, composer, and Miles Davis alum Robert Irving III. Emma also held the position of recording engineer for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She engineered two releases by the CSO: “Mason Bates: Anthology of Fantastic Zoology” and “Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony”.
In 2015 Emma put her life in a trailer and drove 800 miles east to New York. For two years she studied with Gerald Cannon and Ron Carter and performed regularly with the Victor Goines Quartet. Emma has since had amazing opportunities to share the international stage with Herbie Hancock, David Murray, Kahil El’Zabar, Jeff Parker, Dee Alexander, Robert Irving III, Ari Brown, Patricia Barber, Gretchen Parlato, Nicole Mitchell, and Willie Pickens. Her most recent collaboration, The Esthesis Quartet, is releasing a self titled album this May on Orenda Records.
Vincent Davis, Chicago native, is an internationally acclaimed jazz percussionist, composer, and teacher. The seed of music was planted in Davis early, growing up in a home filled with the influences of rock, jazz and gospel. In 1979 Davis left Chicago to attend the Milwaukee Conservatory of Music, where his love of jazz and skill at drumming flourished. It was here that Davis met his mentor Manty Ellis.
Since 1985, he has belonged to groups of Roscoe Mitchell as his Note Factory and its trio with Harrison Bankhead and Jaribu Shahid, with whom he also toured several times in Europe and Asia and performed at international festivals such as the North Sea Jazz Festival . He is on Mitchell’s albums Songs in the Wind (1991), This Dance Is For Steve McCall (1993), and Come And See What There Is To See (2019) as well as sound recordings of Jodie Christian and Scott Fields. He founded the ensembles Laws of Motion and Percussion Plus. He has also collaborated with Matthew Shipp, Arthur Blythe, David Murray, Joseph Jarman, Marilyn Crispell, Von Freeman, Hamid Drake, Ed Wilkerson and many other musicians. In the field of jazz, Davis has participated in over forty recording sessions since 1988. He has also mentored an entire generation of upcoming Chicago artists including Corey Wilkes, Junius Paul, Isaiah Collier, Jeremiah Hunt, Emma Dayhuff, and Micah Collier.
Isaiah Collier is a Chicago/Brooklyn based Grammy nominated multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, curator, activist, motivational speaker and educator. Collier is most known for his work as a saxophonist, and drummer with his group "Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few". Collier's sound and approach is drawn from the influences of John Coltrane, Roscoe Mitchell, Wayne Shorter, Ari Brown and Gene Ammons. Collier has shared the stage with many distinguished artists—Chance The Rapper, Lewis Nash, Waddada Leo Smith III, Junius Paul, James Carter, Rene Marie, Marquis Hill, Bennie Maupin,Rudy Van Gelder, Angel Bat Dawid, Kahil El’Zabar and many more. Collier has performed at The Jazz Showcase, Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, Lithuania Jazz Festival, The White House, Chicago Jazz Festival, New York Winter Jazz Festival, The Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Sons D'hiver Festival(Paris), The Logan Center, The Harris Theatre. Isaiah Collier is also a former fellow of the prestigious Dave Brubeck Institute Stockton,Ca.
One show only. 7 PM
Tickets: $20
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