Book of J

Mining the common ground between his Jewish heritage and his immersion in the blues tradition, Lockwood has created a stunningly vital hybrid. He has released a trio of revelatory albums, appeared in the 2010 documentary film Subway Dreams, was awarded the Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists, toured internationally with the bands Sway Machinery and Balkan Beat Box, and was named a Composer Fellow for the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra. Eisenberg has made a mark in both the Bay Area and New York avant-rock scenes, forming the female a capella trio Charming Hostess during East Oakland’s experimental music heyday of the 1990s. She’s recorded five albums with the trio and under her own name, primarily as part of the Radical Jewish Culture series for John Zorn’s Tzadik label, and has been awarded a Rockefeller Foundation grant, a Goldman Fund fellowship, and served as an MIT Artist-In-Residence. Lockwood describes their collaboration as “the Weavers for the post-apocalyptic era.”