ANGEL BAT DAWID
Genres: Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Third Stream, Nu Jazz, Eclectic Fusion, 21st Century Modern • United States

Since committing herself to a life in music in 2014, the multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, and educator Angel Bat Dawid has become known for her avant-garde approach to music and as a bandleader working in the realm of free jazz. The daughter of missionaries who lived, for a time, in Kenya, Bat Dawid is based in Chicago. She has performed with the likes of the Black Monument Ensemble, the Sun Ra Arkestra as part of the trio Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty, and the Participatory Music Coalition, an improvisational collective she cofounded, among many others. Bat Dawid’s first album, The Oracle (International Anthem, 2019), exemplifies her approach of memorializing and expanding Black histories and experiences through cosmic, intricately layered sounds. To create the album, Bat Dawid mixed, performed, recorded, and produced nearly all of the album herself, primarily on her cell phone using an application that allowed her to overdub. Bat read more...