Effecting Change
About four years ago, saxophonist Sam Gendel appeared in the YouTube-verse blowing raging solos with Louis Cole’s Knower project. Since then he’s been videoed in a variety of musical situations, including performances with Ry Cooder, Blake Mills and Pino Palladino, Sam Amidon, and Scary Pockets.
Gendel, Cole, Mills, and the Pockets people make up a loose, Los Angeles-based creative crew that often collaborates with like-minded musicians from other parts of the country, including members of bands originating in Minneapolis (Vulfpeck) and Houston (Snarky Puppy). Many of these players are products of
