At just 31 years of age Trumpet player Adam O’Farrill has a super-impressive musical CV. The list of those he’s dated with reads like a who’s who of contemporary jazz front-runners including Mary Halvorson, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Vijay Iyer, Tyshawn Sorey and Anna Webber. Add to that his impressive work with his own long-running quartet Stranger Days and a New York Times testimony that called him “among the leading trumpeters in jazz,” and “ perhaps the music’s next major improviser.”
For this new album O’Farrill has formed a new quartet that for the first time puts him as a sole horn at the front of a band. ELEPHANT features three rising New York-based artists – pianist Yvonne Rogers, the bassist Walter Stinson and the drummer Russell Holzman. “I hit the goldmine with this band,” says O’Farrill. “Also, everybody’s cool, everybody’s funny. That’s very important. I consider this band the closest I’ll probably get to fronting a rock band.” Rock sensibility is certainly in the mix alongside the influence of minimalism, electronica and post-bop. It’s a mind-bending on Out Of Your Head records.
This is our Chosen One.