Boppin' Mod Jazz: Earprint & Adam O'Farrill
Wiesner Bldg, 20 Ames St, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
42.3608068
-71.08768479999998
Description
A night of music, film, and art, Ampersand challenges musicians to add visuals to their sets. Each performance is a unique audio/visual experience.
7:30 Doors, 8PM Music (ends by 10pm)$3 w/MIT ID // $5 General AdmissionMIT ACT Cube (E15-001): http://www.mit.edu/~cousot/MintaMartinLecture/directions.html
Earprint is a four-part chordless creative collective with an aggressively melodic, shamelessly youthful approach to making music. A chordless quartet—free of the confines of piano or guitar—has a uniquely open, stripped-down sound, perhaps most often associated with Ornette Coleman’s quartets or the Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker group of the early 1950s. Earprint draws plenty from these touchstones, but their influences range across the chordless canon, paying homage to the likes of Steve Coleman, Happy Apple, and Dave Holland. Saxophonist Kevin Sun, trumpeter Tree Palmedo, bassist Simón Willson, and drummer Dor Herskovits merge burning swing, knotty grooves, and anthemic themes into a spare sort of kitchen-sink minimalism.
Adam O'Farrill is a Brooklyn-bred trumpeter and a “rising star as a player and composer” (PopMatters). O'Farrill comes from a rich musical legacy of Afro-Cuban composers, Grammy winners, and pianists. He has performed with Mulatu Astatke, Vijay Iyer, Christian McBride, Samora Pinderhughes, and Onyx Collective. Adam and his band, Stranger Days, will release a new album, El Maquech, soon on Biophilia Records, which covers everything from traditional Mexican music to covers of Gabriel Garzon-Montano and Irving Berlin. O'Farrill also received the 2016-2017 Jazz Gallery Residency Commission.
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Start:
2018-05-12T19:30:00-04:00
End:
2018-05-12T22:30:00-04:00
Category
Performances
Tickets
General Admission
5.0
USD
100
