Friday May 25th, 7-8pm at the Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Inman Sq. Cambridge.
Garrison Fewell – guitar
Todd Brunel – bass clarinet
Forbes Graham – trumpet
John McLellan – drums
w/ special guest
Jim Hobbs – alto sax
Todd Brunel – bass clarinet
Forbes Graham – trumpet
John McLellan – drums
w/ special guest
Jim Hobbs – alto sax
Todd Brunel and Garrison Fewell have collaborated in various creative musical projects including the Variable Density Sound Orchestra and Vortex Other Dimensions Ensemble. Together with Forbes Graham and John McClellan, the quartet has performed for various improvised music series in Somerville, Cambridge and Boston. The Lily Pad set will showcase multiple musical personalities: melodic accessibility, a spontaneous composition and the unbridled freedom of free improvisation.
“The guitarist formerly known as one of Boston’s most eloquent inside players has become one of its leading experimenters,” explains the Boston Phoenix’s Jon Garelick who included Garrison Fewell‘s “Variable Density Sound Orchestra” on his best of 2009 list.
Jim Hobbs has been an underground feature of the Boston music scene for two decades and has been described as “one of the generation’s most gifted artists” by Troy Collins, AllAboutJazz. Boston Phoenix writer Jon Garelick says, “There’s no one with a more individual sound than Hobb; strangled and crying one minute, soft and bluesy the next, or just plain Johnny Hodges purdy.”
Todd Brunel is an innovative, critically acclaimed clarinetist and saxophonist, whoproduces The Vortex Series for New and Improvised Music, with grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Cambridge Arts Council and the Somerville Arts Council. The Vortex Series has also been chosen as the jazz “pick of the week” in the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Globe.
Trumpet player and electronic musician Forbes Graham is part of a dynamic new generation of improvisers in Boston. In his solo work and as part such groups as the Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble and the Calliope Quartet, Forbes traverses a wide spectrum of genres and styles including experimental, jazz, noise, metal and more.
John McLellan has a resume that is expansive and varied, including work with Joe and Mat Maneri, Roswell Rudd, Bern Nix, Roy Campbell, William Parker, Ken Vandermark, Denman Marony, Ben Monder, and the Either/Orchestra. He has performed at festivals including the Newport Jazz Festival, the Iowa City Jazz Festival, Munster International Jazz Festival in Germany and New York’s Vision Festival.
