Lorca Hart Trio at Healdsburg Jazz Festival

Lorca Hart was raised on rhythm. Growing up in a highly musical family, he absorbed the intricacies of the trap set from his father, drum maestro Billy Hart. As a student at CalArts in the mid-1990s he developed an expansive, insistently swinging approach to time through studies with drum masters Tootie Heath and Joe LaBarbera, and avant gard icons Charlie Haden and Wadada Leo Smith. Since then he’s become a fixture on the Southland jazz scene sought out by succession of esteemed veterans, including guitarists Calvin Keys, Anthony Wilson, Julian Lage, bassist John Heard, trumpeter Hugh Masakela, and saxophonists Herman Riley, Azar Lawrence, Red Holloway, Plas Johnson, and Bennie Maupin. His powerful trio is joined by Craig Handy, the Berkeley-raised tenor saxophonist who’s toured the world leading the celebrated Mingus Big Band. ...

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Lorca Hart was raised on rhythm. Growing up in a highly musical family, he absorbed the intricacies of the trap set from his father, drum maestro Billy Hart. As a student at CalArts in the mid-1990s he developed an expansive, insistently swinging approach to time through studies with drum masters Tootie Heath and Joe LaBarbera, and avant gard icons Charlie Haden and Wadada Leo Smith. Since then he’s become a fixture on the Southland jazz scene sought out by succession of esteemed veterans, including guitarists Calvin Keys, Anthony Wilson, Julian Lage, bassist John Heard, trumpeter Hugh Masakela, and saxophonists Herman Riley, Azar Lawrence, Red Holloway, Plas Johnson, and Bennie Maupin. His powerful trio is joined by Craig Handy, the Berkeley-raised tenor saxophonist who’s toured the world leading the celebrated Mingus Big Band.

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