Rope Ladder is saxophonist Nathan Hanson’s string group, featuring Laura Harada (violin), Michelle Kinney (cello), and Kyle Motl (bass). They play Nathan’s compositions in an expansive, improvised style that is equal parts familiar and unexpected, drawing from folk, classical, and jazz sources. Saxophonist and composer Nathan Hanson makes music that invites listeners to stand outside themselves and the flow of time. His improvisations are “lithe and soaring, engaging in judicious honk ‘n’ splatter” (New York City Jazz Record). In Europe, Hanson has performed at the Atlantique Jazz Festival, Splendor in Amsterdam, and the Sons d’Hiver Festival in Paris. In the United States, he has played at the Knitting Factory in…