BlankFor.ms with Jason Moran and Marcus Gilmore // Billy Hart Quartet // Chris Ryan Williams – Long Play Festival
Chris Ryan Williams is an artist and musician based in Brooklyn, NY whose work unfolds through electroacoustic composition and performance installation. His EP Live earned praise from Jazz Right Now and The Quietus for its “dazzling collaged pieces that ricochet between improvised passages and written material”. His debut LP Odu: Vibration II, praised by Pitchfork and named one of NPR’s Best New Albums, reimagines a journey through Plato’s Cave.
NEA Jazz Master Billy Hart commands the whole spectrum of musical possibility: His drumming is still as fresh as tomorrow. Early on, Hart performed in D.C. with soul artists such as Otis Redding and Sam and Dave, and then later with Buck Hill and Shirley Horn. Hart has recorded with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, McCoy Tyner, and most other modern jazz legends. The Billy Hart Quartet includes Mark Turner on saxophone, Ethan Iverson on piano, and Ben Street on bass.
BlankFor.ms is a Brooklyn-based artist who creates richly textured music with degraded tapes, analog circuitry, and spinet piano. He composes for film and video games, with contributions including Academy Award Best Picture-nominated film Nickel Boys. In this collaboration, he is joined by MacArthur Fellow pianist, composer, and educator Jason Moran and innovative drummer Marcus Gilmore–two of the most highly-regarded jazz performers of our time.
You can get access to this show with a Long Play Supporter Pass or single-event ticket from Roulette.
Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes. Roulette Members get 20% off full Long Play festival passes! Email development@roulette.org for more information.