Friday November 6 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * OFFSITE at Tonal Park *  $20-30 * TICKETS

At Tonal Park Studios. Tonal Park is at 7014-C Westmoreland Ave, Takoma Park, MD. Enter through the WOWD entrance at 7014-B. Any questions, email info@rhizomedc.org; please don’t contact Tonal Park.

Transparent Productions presents…

Phillip Golub (piano), Lesley Mok (drums).

On the heels of debut releases as bandleaders in 2024 described respectively as “an exquisite and stimulating work” (The Living Collection – All About Jazz) and “possess[ing] a grounding, mesmeric magic” (Abiding Memory – DownBeat Magazine), drummer LESLEY MOK and pianist PHILLIP GOLUB joined forces as dream brigade. Their self-titled debut album, released March 14, 2025 on New York creative music imprint Infrequent Seams, is an immersive and captivating collection of improvisations that has earned wide international acclaim. Strikingly, it also features the duo’s highly personal interpretations of two jazz standards. On dream brigade, Mok and Golub break away from the rigorously composed constructions of their recent individual projects to allow their voices as improvisers and instrumentalists to speak for themselves.

Mok and Golub met socially in Boston, where they studied at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory, respectively. Their collaboration began in 2021, when Mok invited Golub to perform a duo concert at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning in Queens, NY, in the months following the reopening from the COVID shutdown. Since then, dream brigade has performed regularly across the Northeast and Midwest, with recent engagements at The Jazz Gallery, CloseUp NYC, Spoleto Festival USA, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, The Bop Stop, and others.