Sacks & Co. /// Pino Palladino and Blake Mills

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BLAKE MILLS & PINO PALLADINO CONFRIM SUMMER TOUR

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM NOTES WITH ATTACHMENTS OUT NOW

“Palladino's trademark bass sound lies in the cut, the fertile ground on which Mills, Gendel and Rounds dance dreamily around each other. This is session musicianship at its best.”—NPR

“The final product is a gloriously idiosyncratic modern Afrobeat jam” —Stereogum

“It’s the sound of consummate collaborators imagining a world where there’s no such thing as a lead performer.”—Pitchfork

Celebrated multi-instrumentalist and producer Blake Mills and renowned bassist Pino Palladino will be touring across North America and Europe this summer. Kicking off the tour on July 7 at The Montreal Jazz Festival, the tour will span 9 cities and 6 countries. The tour also features the talented saxophonist/guitarist Sam Gendel & drummer Abe Rounds who will lend their instrumental talents to the stage. See below for a complete list of dates. Watch/share the promotional video HERE. Tickets are on sale now, visit https://www.blakemillsonline.com/live for more information.

The new tour dates follows the duo’s release of their critically acclaimed album, Notes With Attachments, which was concieved as a fully collaborative work centered around the two artists’ love for experimentation. You can watch the ensemble perform on NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert HERE.

Recorded in stages over two and a half years, Notes With Attachments brings together a preeminent group of musicians from the worlds of jazz, R&B, pop, and beyond. The product is an orchestral, smorgasbord of musical genres and sounds. It is both a producers’ album and a players’ album, exploring bits of musical vocabulary common to the two musicians, then defamiliarizing them.

Two-time Grammy Awards Producer of the Year nominee Blake Mills has released four solo albums and produced and recorded with artists such as Alabama Shakes, Fiona Apple, Bob Dylan, John Legend, Perfume Genius, Jim James, Moses Sumney, Laura Marling, Phoebe Bridgers, Cass McCombs, The Killers, Sara Bareilles, Weyes Blood and Randy Newman. His most recent album Mutable Set, released last year, was praised by Pitchfork as “a hushed collection that floats through the subconscious like a tender dream” and earned their Best New Music title.

Pino Palladino is a Grammy Award winning songwriter, producer and bassist who helped create the rhythm-section sound of D’Angelo’s Voodoo and Black Messiah, and over a four-decade career has worked with artists including Keith Richards, Erykah Badu, Eric Clapton, Nine Inch Nails, Questlove, John Mayer, Paul Simon, Jeff Beck, Herbie Hancock and Adele.

For more information, please contact Krista Williams or Carla Sacks 212.741.1000 at Sacks & Co.

PINO PALLADINO AND BLAKE MILLS LIVE
FT. SAM GENDEL & ABE ROUNDS
July 7 /// Montreal Jazz Festival /// Montreal, QC
July 10 /// North Sea Jazz Festival /// Rotterdam, Netherlands
July 14 /// Jardins Efemeros /// Viseu, Portugal
July 16 /// Olt Rivierenhof /// Antwerp, Belgium
July 17 /// Echternach Festival /// Echternach, Luxembourg
July 26-27 /// SPACE /// Evanston, IL
July 29 /// Newport Jazz Festival /// Newport, RI
July 30 /// Le Poisson Rouge /// New York, NY
July 31 /// The Howard Theatre /// Washington D.C.
August 3 /// Pico Union Project /// Los Angeles, CA