Episode Two: Jessica Ackerley, Kate Mohanty

This episode features avant-garde jazz saxophonist Kate Mohanty and experimental, rock and jazz guitarist and educator Jessica Ackerley, with special guest guitarist Lauren Levy.

This week we are promoting The Portland Freedom Fund, a volunteer-run abolitionist organization currently dedicated to reducing harms perpetuated against our Black, Brown and Indigenous neighbors by the criminal justice system through posting bail so they may navigate their case from a position of freedom.

Kate Mohanty is an avant-garde saxophonist based in Brooklyn, NY.

Jessica Ackerley is a guitar player and music educator based in Oahu, HI.

Jamie Frey performs in the Brooklyn rock band, NO ICE.

1. Heroin - The Velvet Underground (0:00)
2. Improvisation 1 - Jessica Ackerley (10:30)
3. Improvisation 2 - Jessica Ackerley (18:29)
4. Blue Skies - Irving Berlin (24:05)
5. Improvisation 3 - Jessica Ackerley & Kate Mohanty (31:55)
6. Waiting For a Friend (feat. Lauren Levy) - The Rolling Stones (38:20)
7. Improvisation 4 - Kate Mohanty (42:59)