POSTPONED: Lara Driscoll Trio
Cafe Coda 1224 Williamson St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
A message from Cafe Coda: We are very sorry to inform you that we will be temporarily closed for next week (beginning 3/16) until further notice. We have canceled all events for next week.
The events of the week of March 23 are on hold for now. Please keep an eye on our FB page for any updates!
We're very regretful for the inconvenience and hope we are doing what we can to "flatten the curve" and hope this difficult time will calm down soon!
press release: Lara Driscoll is a French-American pianist, composer, and educator known for her “captivating style and uncluttered finesse” (COCO Jazz CKVL FM Montreal) and her “magical touch...musical solos” (All About Jazz).
For Chicago-based Lara Driscoll, Woven Dreams is both a beginning and an end. It’s her first album as a leader, and as such will serve to introduce jazz listeners to her warm, expressive playing and quietly ingenious compositions. At the same time, Woven Dreams memorializes the trio that she led while a graduate student at Montréal’s McGill University, as well as her time in the Francophone city.
“I kind of fell into living in Montréal, which was honestly an amazing thing,” she says. “To experience the way that Montréalers think about music, which is a very interesting combination of European and North American sensibilities.”
The child of an American father and French mother, Montréal’s bilingual and creative scene seemed a logical locale to enrich her musical career. Music has to be personal,” she adds. “It has to be expressive. There has to be some emotion in it. But it can’t just be emotion. There has to be some depth to the music itself. There has to be meat to it.” And there’s plenty of meat to Woven Dreams.
“It’s clear from this melange of diverse influences and substantially original playing that Lara Driscoll’s voice is markedly personal and should be widely heard.” -Andre White (Pianist, Drummer, Audio Engineer, Associate Professor of Jazz Studies, McGill University)