LINER NOTES with David Bixler featuring Jon Irabagon

AI-labor saving tool or existential threat? On
his new recording Server Farm, saxophonist and
composer Jon Irabagon contemplates the potential
threat and promise of this omni-present technology. For this
recording Irabagon augments his regular quartet consisting of
keyboardist Matt Mitchell, bassist Chris
Lightcap, and percussionist Dan Weiss
with violinist and vocalist Mazz Smith,
trumpeter Peter Evans, guitarists Miles
Okazaki and Wendy Eisenberg, bassist
Michael Formanek, and percussionist and
electronic musician Levy Lorenzo. Imitating AI,
Jon spent several years doing a deep dive into the musical output
of his collaborators, mining their entire catalogues for ideas
that create the foundation of the music on this exciting
recording.