Brandon Lopez

Brandon Lopez is a New York double bassist and composer working at the edges of jazz, free improvisation, noise and new music. He studied at the New England Conservatory. He is a regular presence in the city's improvised music scene and often performs solo. Lopez leads the piano trio Mess with Sam Yulsman and Chris Corsano. He has played with Fred Moten and Gerald Cleaver, a trio whose work the New York Times listed among the best jazz of 2022, and with John Zorn, Tyshawn Sorey, Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, Nate Wooley, Weasel Walter, Peter Evans, Zeena Parkins and the Mat Maneri Quartet.