Olisa is a writer, poet, and devotional audiophile whose creative life orbits around jazz as both method and mood, approaching sound as texture, history, and dialogue. Inspired by the restless voices of Byard Lancaster, Richard Durham, Julius Hemphill, Roland P. Young and countless others who have pushed the tradition forward, he carries their charge into his show Off-Kilter on a Ravine—a sonic excavation that lets those signals resurface.