Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To find SML’s beginnings, you have to go back to ETA, a cocktail bar in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. The space ...

At a March Seattle gig, SML generated three epic improvisations of subtle groove science (the second piece even evoked the funky swagger of Average White Band’s “Schoolboy Crush”) and galvanic ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. SML is the new quintet composed of luminaries from Los Angeles’s thriving jazz, ...

SML doesn’t play songs live, per se. They don’t run their so-called hits, joints, or jawns for the masses.

SML is a new jazz band signed to the great International Anthem label, featuring bassist Anna Butterss, synthesist Jeremiah Chiu, saxophonist Josh Johnson, percussionist Booker Stardrum, and guitarist ...