Peter Zummo Quartet is composed by Josh Cole on bass, Michael Davidson on vibraphone, Blake Howard on percussion and Peter Zummo on trombone, voice and synthesizer. They will be playing “Different Birds”, compositions and arrangements for improvising percussion and melody ensemble, with yet genre nonspecific-synthesized backing tracks and non-linear spoken word segments that suggests overheard conversations and inner thoughts. Malcolm Goldstein, a contemporary of Zummo and Thouin, present since the 1960's on the international and local music scene, joins the quartet after a short solo set performance. Opening the night, saxophonist Aaron Leaney (Ratchet Orchestra) reunites with legendary drummer, Guy Thouin to perform music from their debut duo vinyl release, “Lockdown” out on the Austin, Texas based label Astral Spirits Records.Their music focuses deeply on the intersectionality of Leaney’s Indo-Caribbean heritage, Thouin’s multiple exoduses to India in the 1970s when he studied with tabla guru Karamuthulla and their shared vocabulary as fierce improvisers despite the four-decade age gap between them.
Peter Zummo Quartet + Malcolm Goldstein + Guy Thouin & Aaron Leaney
Peter Zummo Quartet is composed by Josh Cole on bass, Michael Davidson on vibraphone, Blake Howard on percussion and Peter Zummo on trombone, voice and synthesizer. They will be playing “Different Birds”, compositions and arrangements for improvising percussion and melody ensemble, with yet genre nonspecific-synthesized backing tracks and non-linear spoken word segments that suggests overheard conversations and inner thoughts. Malcolm Goldstein, a contemporary of Zummo and Thouin, present since the 1960's on the international and local music scene, joins the quartet after a short solo set performance. Opening the night, saxophonist Aaron Leaney (Ratchet Orchestra) reunites with legendary drummer, Guy Thouin to perform music from their debut duo vinyl release, “Lockdown” out on the Austin, Texas based label Astral Spirits Records.Their music focuses deeply on the intersectionality of Leaney’s Indo-Caribbean heritage, Thouin’s multiple exoduses to India in the 1970s when he studied with tabla guru Karamuthulla and their shared vocabulary as fierce improvisers despite the four-decade age gap between them.