Carl Herder (bass) has done everything wrong. He quit his trombone studies at the Eastman School to play bass in a rock band. He has been pathologically unable to stay put in one genre of music, having composed and performed in musical theater of all stripes, been the only white guy in Reggae, Soka, Samba and Salsa bands; even done some Kulintang from the southern Philippines. Carl founded improvisational art music project Dogs Playing Poker in 2008. Most recently, he has established a reputation for injecting the unexpected into a shifting kaleidoscope of jazz agglomerations across the Bay Area.
This is so meta.