Japan Earthquake Relief Concert

With House of Straw again, hon­ored to be part of the ben­e­fit con­cert for vic­tims of the Japan­ese Earth­quake & Tsuna­mi. 100% of prof­its goes to ben­e­fit char­i­ties help­ing in the relief effort. Join­ing for the show were the aston­ish­ing­ly gift­ed vocal­ist Amie Pen­well (http://www.amiepenwell.net/), award win­ning sax­o­phon­ist Hit­o­mi Oba (http://www.hitomioba.com/), and vio­lin­ist Michelle Maruya­ma (Sym­pho­ny Sil­i­con Val­ley),
A recip­i­ent of the Thelo­nious Monk Insti­tute Jazz Com­posers Award Jack Per­la — piano, as well as long­time col­lab­o­ra­tors and musi­cal mind-read­ers David Arend — bass and Ricky Carter — drums, at ODC Dance Com­mons, San Fran­cis­co, April. 9th. 2011.