On Friday, January 30th at 8:00 p.m., veteran guitarist/composer
Garrison Fewell and his newest working ensemble, the Variable Density Sound Orchestra, will celebrate their forthcoming self-titled debut on
Creative Nation Music with a two-set performance at the
Cambridge Family YMCA Theater in Cambridge, MA (Central Square). The group, which features Roy Campbell (trumpet and flute), Achille Succi (alto saxophone and bass clarinet), Eric Hofbauer (guitar), John Voigt (bass) and Miki Matsuki (drums), will be joined by special guests, Steve Swell (trombone) and Dmitry Ishenko (bass).
Variable Density Sound Orchestra (CNM 014) officially hits the streets on February 17th.
"Guitarist Garrison Fewell has never stopped moving forward on his musical journey from accomplished post-bop guitarist to free-jazz explorer," writes music journalist Ed Hazell in the liner notes. "Here, on his most fully realized and personal recording in the free jazz idiom to date, you can still hear the thoughtfulness, tenderness, and intimacy; careful listening; and the rigorous construction of line and feel for melody that have marked all his albums. The Variable Density Sound Orchestra is a group well suited to realizing Garrison's concepts and compositions."
Fewell’s distinguished career as a performer and educator spans more than 30 years. He has toured all around the world, including Africa, Canada, the Carribbean, Europe, South America and the United States. His groups have featured such prominent musicians as Cameron Brown, George Cables, Billy Hart, Fred Hersch, Khan Jamal, Charlie Kohlhase, Cecil McBee, John Tchicai and Matt Wilson among many others. Also an internationally respected jazz educator, Fewell has been a Professor at Boston’s Berklee College of Music since 1977, given clinics at more than 40 European conservatories, written lessons for various guitar magazines and authored three jazz textbooks, including his latest,
Jazz Improvisation For Guitar: A Melodic Approach (Berklee Press).
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