Owen Clapp and Friends

Please join us for a night of San Geronimo Valley-inspired instrumental music composed over the last seven years by Owen Clapp, a Marin-based (formerly in Los Angeles) bass player and writer who grew up here in the Valley. Joining from Los Angeles are Jonathan Pinson on drums, and Gregory Uhlmann on guitar. The band goes into the studio in the days following this show to record these songs for an album. 

Owen Clapp - bass
Owen Clapp is a bassist and writer living in Marin. He has had the opportunity to play upright and electric bass for a range of artists from a variety of genres, including Anderson Paak, Dumbfoundead, George Watsky, and Grammy award-winning artists Jonah Levine, Ruslan Sirota, Mads Tolling, Evan Price, and Bill Cunliffe, among others. His recording credits include work with Grammy-nominated producers Julian-Quán Việt Lê and Jeff Kolhede. Owen’s writing focuses on the people and history of rural West Marin, California, and appears in publications like the Pulitzer Prize-winning Point Reyes Light newspaper - as well as in a book in the nationwide 'Images of America' series. He is the founder of a small history archive and museum space here at the Community Center.

Jonathan Pinson - drums
A drum student from the age of 7, Jonathan Pinson holds music degrees from the Thelonious Monk Institute at UCLA (M.M.) and Berklee College of Music (B.A.). Pinson has performed or collaborated with Seal, Herbie Hancock, Wanye Shorter, Kamasi Washington, Braxton Cook, Gerald Clayton, Terrace Martin, Kiefer, Marquis Hill, Mark Turner, Gilad Hekselman, Moses Sumney, Christian Kuria, and Ben Williams. Pinson has appeared at the Newport, Montreal, Jakarta, and So What’s Next Jazz Festivals, the Hollywood Bowl, the Village Vanguard, the Blue Note, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Yoshi’s, and Ronnie Scott’s. Most recently, he was an artist in residence at Black Cat in San Francisco. 

Gregory Uhlmann - guitar
Gregory Uhlmann is a Los Angeles based guitarist, producer, and composer with an inclination towards mixing the prickly and the beautiful. Projects: a duo with Meg Duffy, a duo with Dustin Wong, a trio with Josh Johnson and Sam Wilkes, and a quintet with Jeremiah Chiu, Anna Butterss, Josh Johnson, and Booker Stardrum. Uhlmann plays guitar in some bands including Perfume Genius, Hand Habits, Fell Runner, and with Miya Folick.