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New Language Collaborative

  • The Lilypad 1353 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA, 02139 (map)

$15 Cover @ the Door / Start 8pm / Doors 7:30pm / Seated Show

Please Note: Daniel Carter who was originally scheduled to perform will no longer be able to attend.


One of the Boston area’s longest-standing improvising bands…

NLC: New Language Collaborative!

Spanning several generations, and covering a truly orchestral range of sounds and dynamics, the players are as strong and idiosyncratic as they are flexible and deeply in tune with each other and the music.

Featuring the return of a Boston legend from New York, drummer Syd Smart!

Glynis Lomon (cello, voice, aquasonics)

Eric Zinman (piano)

Syd Smart (drums)

Ellwood Epps (trumpet)

New Language Collaborative

Eric ZinmanGlynis Lomon, and Syd Smart – all former students of the legendary trumpet player Bill Dixon – began performing together as New Language Collaborative in 2005 and recorded their first album for Ayler Records in 2007. Montreal’s Ellwood Epps (another Dixon student) has joined the group in more recent years and they released a subsequent recording together in 2019.

Another appearance of Canadian trumpeter Ellwood Epps (organizer of the contemporary NLC), already a force in the creative music scene in Boston!

These five musicians are uniting for the first time for an international tour. Spanning several generations, and covering a truly orchestral range of sounds and dynamics, the players are as strong and idiosyncratic as they are flexible and deeply in tune with each other and the music. 

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