Reotreo Plus Kazuto Sato at Bird & Beckett Books and Records

Fri, December 1, 8:30pm – 10:00pm
REOTREO PLUS ONE
Donald Robinson, drums
Karl Evangelista, guitar
Larry Ochs, reeds
with Kazuto Sato, bass

REOTREO PLUS ONE
Kazuto Sato joins the
Robinson – Evangelista – Ochs trio
for one special night of music


REOTREO PLUS ONE
Donald Robinson, drums
Karl Evangelista, guitar
Larry Ochs, reeds
plus Kazuto Sato, bass


Robinson, Evangelista and Ochs tonight invite the inspiring bassist and long-time Jazzman Kazuto Sato to join their free-jazz band.

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Fri, December 1, 8:30pm – 10:00pm
REOTREO PLUS ONE
Donald Robinson, drums
Karl Evangelista, guitar
Larry Ochs, reeds
with Kazuto Sato, bass

REOTREO PLUS ONE
Kazuto Sato joins the
Robinson – Evangelista – Ochs trio
for one special night of music


REOTREO PLUS ONE
Donald Robinson, drums
Karl Evangelista, guitar
Larry Ochs, reeds
plus Kazuto Sato, bass


Robinson, Evangelista and Ochs tonight invite the inspiring bassist and long-time Jazzman Kazuto Sato to join their free-jazz band.


REOTREO has its roots in the three and a half decades-long association of percussionist Robinson and reed player Ochs, who have collaborated in free and structured improvisation in a duo format privately and publicly since the early 1990s, when they first began working together in saxophonist Glenn Spearman’s Double Trio. The Double Trio released three lps between 1993 and 1996. In 1994, the two colleagues joined with bassist Lisle Ellis in the trio What We Live, which released seven lps between 1994 and 2002. In 1997, Robinson joined with Ochs’ long-standing (since 1977) band, ROVA Saxophone Quartet to record their revivification of John Coltrane’s Ascension.
Enter Karl Evangelista, who performed with the duo for the first time in July 2022 to electrifying effect — producing the new aggregation, REOTREO. Evangelista is a ferocious young improvising guitarist whose own projects have been legion since emerging from the MFA program in improvised music at Mills College in 2009 with his band Grex. Apura, his ongoing current project, began in 2008 with research on emigre musicians in England coming from the South African jazz group The Blue Notes.
REOTREO met guest bassist Kazuto Sato during the trio’s June 2023 engagement at the Temescal Art Center, and invited him to join them for their Palo Alto engagement in late October. Stoked by that experience, the augmented REOTREO reunites for their Bird & Beckett engagement on December 1st.

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