rodriguez, bullock, sternberg & sergel

When four musical travelers converge at Little Jumbo Bar, expect the conversation to wander through territories unmarked on any genre map. One brings a baritone voice seasoned by continents and street corners, another weaves bass lines that function more as gravitational fields than rhythm, a third treats the drum kit like a philosopher treats questions—with equal parts conviction and curiosity—and the fourth arrives carrying the collected wisdom of Asheville church music, Brooklyn beat labs, and 50 countries worth of sound. This isn't just a quartet—it's four sonic cartographers who've learned that the most interesting destinations appear between the roads already traveled. Baritone reed meets chamber music architecture meets midnight voice memos meets the ghost of four-track cassette experiments, all of it converging in Little Jumbo's intimate geometry where every frequency matters and silence carries as much weight as sound. In a room where proximity breeds revelation, prepare for an evening where Hard Bop fire dances with Congolese pulse, where hip-hop production philosophy informs jazz improvisation, and where four distinct musical obsessions discover they've been searching for the same thing all along. Sometimes the most profound conversations happen when no one's trying to speak the same language.