The Empty Cage Quartet has consistently been praised as one of the most powerful and original new jazz groups to emerge from the American West Coast. For nearly seven years the group has explored imaginative new ways to integrate a diverse mix of musical influences; the result is a continually evolving, multidimensional approach to jazz and new music performance, improvisational acuity, and compositional craft that has been likened to an "urban folk music of the future." Stratostrophic, their...