Adam O'Farrill ELEPHANT

Adam O’Farrill brings his ELEPHANT quartet to The Jazz Gallery: a New York-based group featuring O’Farrill on trumpet and electronics, Yvonne Rogers on piano and synthesizer, Walter Stinson on bass, and Russell Holzman on drums. The set places O’Farrill’s writing and improvising at the centre of a band whose music draws from post-bop, electronic music, classical minimalism, Radiohead, Jonny Greenwood’s film scores and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

A native Brooklynite, O’Farrill has worked with Mary Halvorson, Hiromi, Anna Webber, Mulatu Astatke, Tyshawn Sorey, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Vijay Iyer and Mali Obomsawin. NPR has described him as an introspective player whose solos “insinuate themselves to listeners”; The Jazz Gallery has heard his playing as “radiant and free-flowing in its melody” and “geometric and off-kilter in its rhythm.” The New York Times calls him “among the leading trumpeters in jazz” and “perhaps the music’s next major improviser.” ELEPHANT’s record has been called “a remarkably confident debut” by The Observer, while Big Ears described the group as “one of the most exciting quartets to emerge in jazz in years.”