Talk Show is a collaboration between two interesting figures in the underground NYC jazz scene. One half of the duo is Steph Richards, a trumpeter with a lengthy history in building multimedia performances combining disparate elements of art to create buzzy performance pieces. The other half is Qasim Naqvi, best known for being the drummer for Dawn of Midi, an acoustic group who opened a couple of dates for Radiohead on the 2016 A Moon Shaped Pool tour.
Richards’ work is characterized by providing a hook of some sort. There’s always something going on, be it choreography, experimental film or something else entirely. 2019’s Supersense, a collaboration with Jason Moran, Kenny Wollesen and Stomu Takeishi, was a live performance…