Nathan Nakadegawa-Lee Quartet

Oakland-raised saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer Nathan Nakadegawa-Lee brings his quartet to The Deluxe. A graduate of The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York, Nakadegawa-Lee leads an ensemble featuring pianist Henry Plotnick alongside a dynamic rhythm section. His playing merges an expressive, vocal-like horn tone with deep blues roots and angular modern post-bop sensibilities. Across multiple sets in the intimate, low-lit listening room, the group navigates imaginative original compositions and reharmonized standard selections driven by fluid harmonic interplay and expansive modal improvisation.