"The music of pianist and composer Motoko Honda is to mainstream jazz what Brahms’s music was to the neatly packaged forms of the Classical period…. Honda's process has a transformative effect on listeners privy to a complex system of inter-communication and cooperative building strategies”
-Phillip Greenlief, Artforum
Featuring Northern California's most versatile and innovative players, Simple Excesses Quartet's exciting repertoire is sets of compositions which unify jazz, classical chamber music, improvisation and experimental soundscapes. Intricate and dynamic and often surprising, the quartet brings the music, which are like a flight in the clouds for both performers and audiences.
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