SML
(Artist Booking and Management)
BANDCAMP / TIDAL / APPLE MUSIC / SPOTIFY / YOUTUBE
Responsible Agent:
Chris Weller
chris@bigfishbookingco.com
Territories:
Worldwide (excluding Asia)
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PROMO PHOTOS
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LINEUP:
SML
Anna Butterss - electric bass; Jeremiah Chiu - synthesizers, live-sampling, aux percussion; Gregory Uhlmann - guitar, effects; Josh Johnson - saxophone, electronics; Booker Stardrum - drums, percussion.
TOUR:
Sep 29, 2024: Chicago, IL @ Warm Love Cool Dreams Festival at Salt Shed
Oct 19, 2024: New Orleans, LA @ 55 South at Hotel Saint Vincent
Dec 03, 2024: Brooklyn, NY @ Public Records [SOLD OUT]
Jan 11, 2024: New York, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg - NYC Winter JazzFest
Mar 02, 2024: Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle [SOLD OUT]
Mar 19, 2024: Los Angeles, CA @ Jazz Is Dead at Lodge Room [SOLD OUT]
Mar 20, 2024: Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
Mar 29, 2025: Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears Festival
Apr 4-5, 2025: The Hague, NL @ Rewire Festival
Apr 6, 2025: Brussels, BE @ Brdcst Festival
May 31, 2025: Los Angeles, CA @ The Getty (Off the 405 series)
Jun 14, 2025: San Francisco, CA @ San Francisco Jazz Festival
Aug 2-3, 2025: Happy Valley, OR @ Pickathon
Oct 31, 2025: Live Oak, FL @ Hulaween Amphitheatre
Dec 01, 2025: Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon
Dec 02, 2025: Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon
Dec 03, 2025: TBA
Dec 11, 2025: Philadelphia, PA @ Solar Myth
Dec 12, 2025: Brooklyn, NY @ The Sultan Room
Dec 13, 2025: Brooklyn, NY @ The Sultan Room
Dec 14, 2025: Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Mar 26-29, 2026: Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears Festival (SML RESIDENCY)
2026 - Available upon request
2027 - Available upon request
NEW ALBUM:
HOW YOU BEEN - RELEASING NOVEMBER 7TH ON INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM.
“Fertile, relentless improvisation."
NY Times
“Strikingly original — and wildly evocative — art-fusion...this is important work.”
SPIN
"Autechre in collaboration with the Claudia Quintet, perhaps? Or John Zorn, produced by Adrian Sherwood? Whatever it is, it’s something that, in real life, has never happened before.”
Bandcamp Daily
"Surreal, supernatural...SML lay down some heavy grooves, but their music is less about making people dance than it is about exploring space through communal joy.”
AllMusic
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BIO:
SML is a quintet composed of luminaries from Los Angeles’s thriving jazz, improvised, and indie music scenes: bassist Anna Butterss (Jason Isbell, Phoebe Bridgers, Makaya McCraven, Jeff Parker), synthesist Jeremiah Chiu (Ariel Kalma, Marta Sofia Honer, Icy Demons), saxophonist Josh Johnson (Meshell Ndegeocello, Leon Bridges, Carlos Niño), percussionist Booker Stardrum (Photay, Lisel, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Wendy Eisenberg) and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann (Meg Duffy, Perfume Genius, Tasha).
Their debut album Small Medium Large was recorded at the band’s first gigs at forme Highland Park, Los Angeles mainstay venue ETA in late 2022 and early 2023, post-produced in the following year, and released in Summer 2024 to wide critical acclaim, landing on ‘Best of 2024’ lists by Tone Glow, Passion of the Weiss, Bandcamp Daily, Hearing Things, and others. Following the release of Small Medium Large, the band expanded beyond Los Angeles to perform at various festivals and venues including Rewire (NL), Brdcast (BE), Warm Love Cool Dreams (Chicago), Winter Jazz Fest (NY), Pickathon (OR), and others. SML return with a new album, How You Been, in fall 2025, as well as a string of shows taking them through early 2026. In March 2026, they will be artists in residence at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN, performing three nights in a row at the internationally renowned creative music summit.
PRESS:
"One of the most anticipated albums of Summer 2024" — Pitchfork
“Nothing short of mesmerizing." — Cultural Attache
“...an exuberant album…” — Los Angeles Times
“Blends elements of jazz with funk, electronic music with avant garde fusion, and it grooves like hell…it’s awesome." — Treble
“SML’s debut album is a delightful and awe-inspiring experience…” — Glide Magazine
“Within the milieu of creative, atmospheric, tradition-defying music termed alternative jazz by default, this is important work.” — SPIN
"...dentro la macchina c’è ancora un cuore che pulsa." — Blow Up
Small Medium Large debuts at #15 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Chart
