Bassist, composer, and activist Luke Stewart is best known as an accomplished  jazz musician, but he is also an innovator of techniques incorporating feedback as an extension of his sound. This edition features Stewart’s commentary on his musical trajectory as well as the role of liberation politics in music. With excerpts from the Feedback Ensemble with cellist Leila Bordreuil, and the composition “Assassinations” with ensemble Irreversible Entanglements. Stewart also discusses his Silt Trio with Brian Settles, sax, and drummers Trae Crudup and Chad Taylor. Stewart presents that trio at Roulette as part of an album release concert for "Unknown Rivers" on 12 Sept. 2024.