LOBE

Emerging from the San Francisco Bay Area, LOBE is a collective of award-winning composers, arrangers, and musicians that lives at the confluence of intricate writing, dynamic improvisation, and imaginative textures. The collective features Daiki Nakajima (flute, bass, tenor/soprano sax), Sam Silverstein (violin), Ethan Buck (alto sax),  Nolan Miranda (piano, synths), Mark Rau (bass, guitar), and Michael Hayes (drums), with recent additions Anav Sood (piano) and Sami Wurm (vocals). Originally united through a common penchant for rhythm-forward contemporary jazz, LOBE quickly developed an interest in building on this aesthetic with dance, folk, electronic, and pop influences. Over many years of practice, friendship, and chemistry, the group came into its distinctive voice: whimsical and unhurried, challenging but inviting, time-bending yet always attuned to the here and now. In Autumn 2025, LOBE is excited to showcase the culmination of the past three years of collaboration in their full-length debut album, was that read more...