Max Hatt and Edda Glass perform at the Jack London Review

Edda Glass and her long-time collaborator Max Hatt have “forged a unique sound," says NPR's Larry Groce. Drawing from jazz, bossa nova, and folk, their alternative musical universe stretches effortlessly from award-winning original compositions to radical reinventions ranging from “Wichita Lineman” to “Take Five” to ”Falling Grace." But striking material is only half the alchemy— Glass’s hauntingly intimate voice is “one of a kind...you cannot confuse her with another artist," according to the New York Theatre Guide; “She must be heard to be believed,” says Nels Cline (Blue Note, Wilco). Likewise, Hatt’s guitar and pedal work is a swoon-inducing soundscape that “creates a vastness within its quiet,” (Yes! Weekly) and has an “an incomparable spook” (Nashville Scene). Hailed as “mesmerizing,” ”evocative,” and “cinematic,” not to mention “elegantly funky,” they make one feel "both lost and found, all at once" (New York Theatre Guide).

Based in Montana, their original music draws from the Northwestern landscape, featuring, on occasion, snow geese and wheat fields; pioneers and native peoples. But the sense of place runs deeper than mere iconography— the harsh aridity, frigid winds, and spacious grandeur have musical equivalents, carried out as a dialog between intimate instrumentation and lush layering, yearning dissonance and resonant homecoming. “You remember how small and fragile you are, when you drive around out here," says Glass, “You take your life in your hands. But everyone does, everywhere. We're all little people on great plains." 

Glass and Hatt have been touring since 2013, appearing on NPR and PBS stations from Seattle to New York City, with tour stops including New York City’s Lincoln Center, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, the Sundance Film Festival, Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival, Earshot Jazz Festival, and the Exit Zero Jazz Festival. In 2022 they received a Jazz Road Grant, funded by the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation, and in 2013 they won the Grand Prize of the NPR/Mountain Stage New Song Contest.