With: Arina Bagaryakova, Chris Bates, Che Buford, Miranda Daiagnew, Shakoor Hakeem, Key Hutch, Kenneth Jiménez, Doyeon Kim, Shara Lunon, Eden Mastriani-Levi, Hani’el Mastriani-Levi, Vivek Menon, Mauro Refosco, Brandon Ross, Yuma Uesaka.​ 

Starting in 1990, Graham Haynes was a conduit for the American cornetist and composer Butch Morris’ structured improvisation method, called Conduction®, a singular form of large-group improvisation in which conductors and ensembles “duet” using a system of signals and gestures. At Nublu, the club and label on Avenue C, Graham was an early member of an evolving, composite group of wildly varied musicians that formed the Nublu Orchestra under Butch Morris’ baton. Butch’s conductive language could manipulate musicians’ harmonies, rhythms, and phrasings regardless of their technical, theoretical, stylistic or cultural background. As an heir to and interpreter of the method since Butch’s death in 2013, Graham has introduced Conduction® to conservatory students, electronic musicians, and to players local to his home in Bahia, Brazil. In March 2024, he led two nights of Conduction® with the Nublu Orchestra as part of his multifaceted month-long residency at FourOneOne. On January 21, 2025, he returns for one night of Conduction®, primarily with musicians new to the form: Arina Bagaryakova, Chris Bates, Che Buford, Miranda Daiagnew, Key Hutch, Kenneth Jiménez, Doyeon Kim, Shara Lunon, Eden Mastriani-Levi, Hani’el Mastriani-Levi, Vivek Menon, Yuma Uesaka, plus longtime collaborators Shakoor Hakeem, Mauro Refosco, and Brandon Ross.

Graham Haynes is a Bahia, Brazil-based composer, bandleader, and musician who expands and confounds what we understand as jazz and electronic music. Son of the drummer Roy Haynes, raised among the greatest figures in improvised music and art in New York, Graham’s work grows out of a keen sense of New York’s many histories of music and musical movements. His voyages span the 1980s co-founding of the seminal M-Base Collective; collaborations with performers in African, Arabic, and South Asian idioms; works with drum 'n' bass DJs; and, most recently, his opus Requiem for Young Black Men Assassinated by Police in America.