Part of TEMPO: Berkeley Festival of Contemporary Performance, June 1-9, Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley

John Schott is well-known as a guitarist and composer working in the boundaries between jazz and new music. His 14 CDs include Shuffle Play (New World), In These Great Times (Tzadik), and, with TJ Kirk, If Four Was One, which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1996.

Renowned guitarist and ECM recording artist John Abercrombie will head a stellar ensemble featuring George Marsh on drums, Rich Fudoli on saxophone and Mel Graves on bass.

Both Abercrombie and Schott willl be using innovative guitar technologies developed at CNMAT.