Transparent Productions welcomes back The Abe Mamet Septet with Abe Mamet (horn), Brian Settles (saxophone), Samantha Kochis (flute). Sonali Singh (bassoon), Jamie Sandel (violin), Will Tober (bass), and Keith Butler, Jr. (drums). Bassist David Kline will open with a solo set.

Wednesday November 19th at Rhizome DC. Doors at 6:30PM, music at 7:00PM

Admission $15-$30, sliding scale.

Lauded as D.C.’s “major jazz French horn player” by the Washington Post, and named one of 2023's "artists to watch" by DCist, Abe Mamet is a composer and instrumentalist committed to using his music to ground himself, his fellow musicians, and his audiences more deeply in the spaces they occupy daily. That commitment involves exploring the use of the French horn in groove-oriented improvised music (informed by the traditions of jazz/creative music/Black American Music), and expanding the technical and theoretical limitations of that instrument. In 2024, Abe received the Prince George’s County Arts and Humanities Council’s Community Grant Award in support of a major new work for septet: "levitate the heavy part," which came out March 2025 on LMB records.

Abe Mamet on Bandcamp: https://abemamet.bandcamp.com/

David Kline is a bassist, filmmaker, and scholar from Knoxville, Tennessee. He is actively involved in the Knoxville experimental music and arts scenes, and is the author of Racism and the Weakness of Christian Identity: Religious Autoimmunity (Routledge, 2020) and the co-editor of Words Made Flesh: Sylvia Wynter and Religion (Fordham, 2025). You can find his video work at https://www.youtube.com/@davidklinemail. His Bandcamp is https://davidklinebass.bandcamp.com/.