Emma Dayhuff Sextet with LoloKamill, Devin Daniels, Andrew Renfroe, Luca Mendoza & Jonathan Pinson

Emma Dayhuff (bass), LoloKamill (vocals), Devin Daniels (alto saxophone), Andrew Renfroe (guitar), Luca Mendoza (piano), Jonathan Pinson (drums)

Picture yourself as a dot in a vast mountain range. Early in the morning, you ascend a ridgeline as a thick bank of fog sweeps over the adjacent mountainside, fills the canyon below, and begins to overtake you. As you reach the peak and begin descending into the neighboring canyon, a second bank of fog rises to meet the first, creating a double updraft on both sides of the ridge and engulfing you in dense, whirling clouds. You feel sublimated, insignificant, and rapt with awe. This is what the Los Angeles-based bassist, composer, and bandleader Emma Dayhuff sets out to conjure in the first minutes of her new album Mountains. By turning these mountains into music, Dayhuff charts a path back to her beginnings in Bozeman, Montana — after leaving those idyll…