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Thu, Nov 11
|Sam First
Andrew Renfroe Album Release Concert
Andrew Renfroe (guitar), Braxton Cook (saxophone), Javier Santiago (piano), David Robaire (bass), Jonathan Pinson (drums)
Nov 11, 2021, 7:30 PM
Sam First, 6171 W Century Blvd #180, Los Angeles, CA 90045, USA
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…
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1st set ticket (7:30pm)
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