You probably love Blake Mills and Pino Palladino—even if you don’t know it. As a guitarist and producer, Mills has worked with an incredible range of artists, including Fiona Apple, Bob Dylan, Feist, Weyes Blood, Sky Ferreira, Perfume Genius, John Legend, and Alabama Shakes, whose Sound & Color earned him a Producer of the Year Grammy nomination. Pino Palladino, meanwhile, has played bass for D’Angelo, Nine Inch Nails, John Mayer, Adele, Erykah Badu, Harry Styles, and Beyoncé. On their 2021 album Notes with Attachments, these two musicians who have spent their careers helping other artists realize their vision spun up something magical of their own. It’s a gauzy and welcoming collection of instrumentals rooted in jazz, soul, and R&B, full of curious experiments and warm with good cheer. Mojo called it “limber, spacey music, pitched somewhere between jazz, funk, and ambience,” while Pitchfork said, “It’s the sound of consummate collaborators imagining a world where there’s no such thing as a lead performer.” 

Now, hot off the release of the long-awaited follow-up That Wasn’t A Dream, the duo come together for a night of off-the-cuff musical tricks and open-minded improv, joined by celebrated LA sax experimentalist Sam Gendel and D’Angelo/Adele drummer Chris Dave, both of whom contribute heavily to the album. 

Doors 6:30pm