Red Nova & Friends

RED NOVA’s experimental jazz artistry captivates and engages the listener with unprecedented cascades of energy and resonance. Hawaii’s leading proponents of ‘New Music,’ The musicians of RED NOVA activate and enable this unique aesthetic, each spontaneously improvised performance eluding definition or replication. Its premiere album, Presence of Mind, is nominated in two categories for the upcoming 2024 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards.
 
JAY JASKOT, Percussion
Jay lays down RED NOVA’S rarified percussive foundation, invoking liberated, trancelike polyrhythms. Born and raised in Honolulu and active in the New York scene for many years, drummer Jay Jaskot sports remarkable versatility, shifting fluidly between any variety of percussive genres. His artistic influences span a staggering breadth of varied artists, from Tony Williams and Jack Dejohnette to Paul Motian, Alex Cline, John Bonham, Elvin Jones, Brian Blade, and Tony Allen. 
 
RANDY WONG, Bass
Innovative versatility informs the extraordinary aesthetic mapping of bassist Randy Wong. His resonant punctuation on the acoustic bass forms a pulsing bridge between RED NOVA’s melodic and percussive elements. Randy is a protégé, among others, of legendary bassist Cecil McBee, and pianist Michael Cain, with whom Randy studied at New England Conservatory. Randy has played with Brother Ah (Robert Northern) & George Clinton, Zsaccai Curtis, Michael Dease, The Waitiki 7, the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra, and others.  
 
PETER SHAINDLIN, Trumpet, digital trumpet, hand percussion
Peter studied improvisation in New York with bassist Ahmed Abdul Malik and Tommy Turrentine. Today he focuses on pushing the boundaries of free jazz, including pioneering explorations on the digital trumpet. In 2022 he formed the progressive trio RED NOVA, now featured on Forward Records.