USA
Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother), MC, poetry; Keir Neuringer, saxophone, Aquiles Navarro, trumpet; Luke Stewart, bass; Tcheser Holmes, drums
Over the past years the Philadelphia/New York/DC-based free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements has taken European audiences by storm. Originally performing as two different ensembles at a Musicians Against Police Brutality event in 2015 (in response to the NYPD slaying of Akai Gurley), the five musicians recognized a shared ethos, and shortly after, assembled as a single unit for an impromptu studio date at Seizure’s Palace in Brooklyn. A statement on their music, from the band: "…we take the stage without a map, navigate the world in deep, telepathic, contrapuntal communion with each other and the histories we’re tapping into, push into the known and unknown, and arrive at the end together."
**Park and www.ljubljanajazz.si, Jazz Festival Ljubljana FB, Cankarjev dom YouTube channel