Leader: Michael Bates
Years Active: 2004-2011
Personnel:
- Michael Bates: bass, compositions
- Russ Johnson: trumpet
- Quinsin Nachoff: saxophones, clarinet (replaced Ohad Talmor, May 2006)
- Jeff Davis: drums (replaced Michael Sarin, April 2007, who replaced Take Toriyama, November 2005)
Albums:
- Live in New York 13/9/2008 (Greenleaf Music, 2009)
- Clockwise (Greenleaf Music, 2008)
- A Fine Balance (Between the Lines, 2006)
- self-titled (Pommerac Records, 2003)
Live Performances:
| Date | Venue | Media |
| 2011 | ||
| May 10 | Versalka (Sopot, Poland) | |
| May 9 | Jazzownia Liberaln (Warsaw) | |
| May 8 | Pod Baszta (Andrychow, Poland) | |
| May 7 | Mozg (Bydgoszcz, Poland) | |
| May 2 | Fincan (Berlin) | |
| Apr 30 | Nurnberg, Germany | |
| 2010 | ||
| Dec 16 | Miles’ Café | |
| Nov 11[1] | Cornelia Street Café | |
| Jun 10 | Cornelia Street Café | |
| Apr 18 | Cornelia Street Café | |
| Mar 19[2] | Douglass Street Music Collective | |
| 2009 | ||
| Dec 12 | Goodbye Blue Monday | |
| Dec 7 | Zebulon | |
| Nov 29[3] | Solo Kitchen Bar | |
| Jul 28 | Le Grand Dakar | |
| Jun 16[4] | The Stone | |
| Apr 25 | Cornelia Street Café | |
| 2008 | ||
| Sep 13[5] | Cornelia Street Café | |
| May 31[6] | Douglass Street Music Collective | |
| Mar 30[7] | Jimmy’s Restaurant | |
| 2007 | ||
| Jul 1 | Jimmy’s Restaurant | |
| Apr 18[8] | Barbes | |
| 2006 | ||
| May 10[9] | 55 Bar | |
| May 4 | Black Pearl | |
| May 3 | Barbes | |
| 2005 | ||
| Nov 2[10] | 55 Bar | |
| Jul 27 | Barbes | |
| Mar 24 | Montauk Club | |
| Mar 21 | 55 Bar | |
| Mar 8[11] | Niagra | |
| Jan 12[12] | Barbes | |
| 2004 | ||
| Nov 18 | Montauk Club | |
| Aug 31 | Niagra | |
| Jul 6 | Niagra |
[1] Tom Rainey replaced Jeff Davis on drums.
[2] Greg Tardy and Josh Sinton replaced Quinsin Nachoff on reeds.
[3] Ron Horton replaced Russ Johnson on trumpet.
[4] Chris Speed replaced Quinsin Nachoff on saxophone.
[5] Record release: Clockwise.
[6] Tony Barba replaced Quinsin Nachoff on saxophone.
[7] Tony Barba replaced Quinsin Nachoff on saxophone.
[8] Tony Malaby replaced Quinsin Nachoff on saxophone; Jeff Davis’ first concert with the band.
[9] On all three May performances, Michael Sarin played drums for the band.
[10] On this date and prior, Ohad Talmor played saxophone and Take Toriyama played drums, unless otherwise noted.
[11] A trio with Mark Small and Pete Retzlaff.
[12] A two-trumpet line-up with Shane Endsley; also Ohad Talmor on saxophone; no drummer.