Avant Goodyear: Mai Sugimoto

The sound of jazz saxophonist, composer and improviser Mai Sugimoto’s fluttering, free-flowing and elastic lines signal the last hurrah of Goodyear Arts’ third annual series of avant-garde events. Drawing inspiration from her upbringing in Japan, Sugimoto’s tone has been compared to dry champagne; her technique suggests reverberations from a delicately plucked koto as well as the shuddering doppler effect from a bullet train speeding by.