Rachel Eckroth Humanoid Album Release Party with Andrew Renfroe, Billy Mohler & Tina Raymond

Rachel Eckroth (piano) Andrew Renfroe (guitar) Billy Mohler (bass) Tina Raymond (drums)

Pianist/Keyboardist Rachel Eckroth’s ability to cross genres has taken her to all corners of the world as a leader and a sideman.  Fresh off a European tour with her trio and after a solo piano release in Spring of 2023, Rachel is releasing a live album (Sam First Records), called Humanoid.  This album was recorded in fall of 2022 with a Los Angeles based quartet including guitarist Andrew Renfroe, drummer Tina Raymond and bassist Billy Mohler.

Her more recent work as a sideman includes world tours with St. Vincent, Mike Gordon, Chris Botti, and Rufus Wainwright. In 2018-2019 she performed as a solo artist on Rufus Wainwright’s  ‘All These Poses’ Tour with her album, When It Falls.  This acclaimed album has been described as, “A lush soundscape of incredibleness from start to finish…her writing abilities are surpassed only by her amazing voice.” (Indie Voice Blog). Her combination of jazz experimentation and pop feeling form the engine behind her own work as a leader/co-leader on nearly 20 albums, most recently The Garden on Rainy Days Records (2021) That same crossover talent is why she's been featured on voice and keyboards in the bands of artists’ with  so many varying genres. Rachel’s most well known project, The Garden, complete with a Grammy Nomination in 2021, features 8 tracks written or co-written by Eckroth.

“Truth be told, when it comes to [articulating] musicianship few can lay claim to such unvarnished, yet riveting artistic evocations – sadness or joy, ugliness, or beauty – as Miss Eckroth does, within the realms of the human, through understated expression and gentle and robust articulation. This is pianism at its most naked and at its very best.” — Jazzdagama.com

“Pianist, singer, and composer Rachel Eckroth is more than a musical chameleon. Her shapeshifting is so astonishingly dramatic that there is no upper limit to her creative identity.” — Simon Rentner, WBGO

All shows at Sam First are 21+ (no one under the age of 21 will be permitted)

Show Times: 7:30pm & 9:30pm, and a separate ticket is required for each show.

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