Andrew Renfroe Album Release Concert

Andrew Renfroe is best known as the first-call guitarist for artists including Braxton Cook, Carmen Lundy, Tia Fuller, Ned Goold and Jonathan Barber. Based in New York, he brought a spellbinding musical vision into view on his 2020 EP Dark Grey [“wide-ranging selection … hard-hitting and swinging … crisp and assertive” – jazzweekly.com]. While Dark Grey was a mission statement of influences and inventive takes on varied source material — Delta blues, West African music, the Coltrane quartet, the late 20th-century French composer Olivier Messiaen — Renfroe approached his full-length debut album Run in the Storm as a vehicle solely for original compositions, a significant step in his career as a rising leader. Amid the various sonic surprises is the expressive wood-and-wire tone and elastic phrasing of Renfroe’s guitar. The airy blues lyricism we hear on “Dula,” the biting yet elegant solo in the second half of “Gotham”: just a few…