Two, the bassist William Parker and the multireedist Daniel Carter, will join her for this album-release gig.
Stacken's trio will play the music in proper order during its record-release gig on June 29 at the Tenri Cultural Institute in Greenwich Village.
This album-release gig features the same sturdy cast: Russ Johnson on trumpet, Mike Holober on Fender Rhodes piano, Cameron Brown on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums.
And as is likely to happen on Saturday at the Cornelia Street Café (corneliastreetcafe.com), when Mr. Robbins plays a CD-release gig, his compositions seem to breathe according to some collective whim.
But this album-release gig is just as notable for recent news involving the group's saxophonist, Jon Irabagon: he won the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition this week.
(Chinen) RUSS NOLAN QUARTET (Friday and Saturday) Throughout "With You in Mind" (Rhinoceruss), the tenor and soprano saxophonist Russ Nolan smartly capitalizes on the whimsy and fire of the pianist Kenny Werner, an experienced hand who resurfaces on this album-release gig.
It's doubling down until then: On Tuesday night the group is to play an album-release gig in New York, followed by performances Wednesday and Thursday on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon"; next week it will return to Southern California for appearances on "Chelsea Lately" and "The Voice".
Yet Pink Mist allows the combined foursome a greater level of clout than they'd be able to offer individually, from the boring stuff (marketing, distribution) to the more fun side of things, such as joint Pink Mist releases, gigs and "just bouncing ideas off each other".
For starters, there has been a spate of historic releases and gigs by offshoots such as Phil and Friends and Ratdog (the latter completed a rapturously received short European tour last month).
Basing themselves in the new-music mecca of East London, they planned releases and gigs with friends in bands like Graffiti Island and Pens.
Now signed to Dumont's own Blase Boys Club, he's planning a 2015 with "more releases, more gigs, more remixes, more collaborations, and more number ones". .
