Video: Sam Reider and the Human Hands play “Del Boca Vista” Featuring:
Eddie Barbash – alto saxophone
Alex Hargreaves – violin
Dominick Leslie – mandolin
Roy Williams – guitar
Dave Speranza – bass

Join Sam Reider when he presents his last show of the year, in Oakland, California with a quartet featuring one of his oldest collaborators, Ben Flocks, on saxophone, along with Shawn Meyers on drums, and Giulio Xavier Cetto on bass. Sam shares, “We’ll be playing selections from my piano record Petrichor, some jazzy versions of Human Hands tunes, and songs by Django, Piazzolla, and Duke Ellington. The Sound Room is a wonderful local venue doing a lot to enrich the Bay Area arts scene, and they have fun food and drinks as well.”

Sam Reider is a pianist, accordionist, composer, and educator from San Francisco, California. Excerpts from his website: His work brings together various streams of American music, from jazz and folk tunes to popular song and contemporary composition. He has appeared as a bandleader and soloist at major festivals and venues around the world and his performances and original compositions have been featured on NPR, PBS and the BBC. Reider has performed, recorded and collaborated with a range of artists including Jon Batiste, Jorge Glem, Sierra Hull, Laurie Lewis, and Paquito d’Rivera. As Mark Corroto writes in All About Jazz, “Reider has a knack for writing new music that has a familiar sound. Let’s say he has an old soul encased in some sprightly fingers.”

Representing the U.S. Department of State as a musical ambassador, Sam has traveled to China, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Estonia, Turkey and Azerbaijan, carrying his accordion on his back and collaborating with international artists. Folk songs and stories from these travels serve as inspiration for many of the compositions on Reider’s first record, Too Hot to Sleep (2018), which features the Human Hands, a virtuosic ensemble of acoustic musicians originally based in Brooklyn, NY described by The New York Times as “modern folk music with saxophone and accordion.” Irresistible melodies, fiery improvisation and otherworldly sounds collide in what Songlines Magazine dubbed a “mash-up of the Klezmatics, Quintette du Hot Club de France and the Punch Brothers.”

In July 2022 Reider released Petrichor, his first record of solo piano music. The title refers to the smell of the earth after a first rain and the eight original compositions on Petrichor form a musical reflection on Reider’s recent homecoming to San Francisco after ten years in New York City.

Join Sam at the Sound Room on December 8, 2022, 7-9 PM on 3022 Broadway Oakland, CA 94611

For more information: sam@samreidermusic.com