Ava Mendoza
Ava Mendoza (* 1983 in Miami ) is an American jazz guitarist , band leader and composer .
Live and act
Mendoza attended Mills College in Oakland and initially lived in Oakland in the 2000s before moving to Brooklyn in 2013 . She has worked with the pop-folk band Tune-Yards as well as with Fred Frith , Carla Bozulich , Nels Cline and the Rova Saxophone Quartet ; she also wrote music for dance, theater and film. In Brooklyn she works with her own trio, consisting of bassist Tim Dahl and drummer Nick Podgurski as well as her band Unnatural Ways (with Dominique Leone (bass synthesizer, keyboards) and Nick Tamburro (drums)). In the field of jazz , she was involved in four recording sessions between 2007 and 2009. Stylistically, she moves between rock music , improvised music , free jazz and contemporary music, which she describes as " complex heavy rock, avant jazz and warped, noisy blues ". In 2014 she performed with her band Unnatural Ways at the Moers festival .
Discographic notes
- Jacob Lindsay: Lindsay / Mendoza / Smith / Walter (2007), with Jacob Lindsay, Ava Mendoza, Damon Smith , Weasel Walter
- Vijay Anderson: Hard-Boiled Wonderland (Not Two Records, 2008), with Ben Goldberg , Sheldon Brown , Smith Dobson, John Finkbeiner
- Ava Mendoza & Nick Tamburro Quit Your Unnatural Ways (2012)
- Unnatural Ways: We Aliens ( Tzadik 2016) with Tim Dahl and Sam Ospovat
- William Hooker Trio with Ava Mendoza & Damon Smith : Remembering (Astral Spirits, 2018)
Web links
- Web presence
- Ava Mendoza at Discogs (English)
- Interview (2014)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://jazzrightnow.com/artists/artists-alphabetical/mendoza-ava/
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 10, 2014)
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ We Alliens (review; baby blue pages)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mendoza, Ava |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz guitarist, band leader and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miami |