Colin Hinton at The Undercroft

A crystalline set of compositions, drummer/composer Colin Hinton's new album Simulacra is deeply rooted in community as it draws on Colin's mentors Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey and Eric Wubbelsas well as composers Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton, Morton Feldman and Alexander Scriabin.

Brooklyn Rail just called the album "hair raising" and praised Hinton as "a rising star on the local avant-jazz scene who takes his bold and expansive compositional and improvised music cues from 20th century classical composers and free jazz icons like Anthony Braxton, Muhal Ricard Abrams, and Henry Threadgill."...

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A crystalline set of compositions, drummer/composer Colin Hinton's new album Simulacra is deeply rooted in community as it draws on Colin's mentors Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey and Eric Wubbelsas well as composers Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton, Morton Feldman and Alexander Scriabin.

Brooklyn Rail just called the album "hair raising" and praised Hinton as "a rising star on the local avant-jazz scene who takes his bold and expansive compositional and improvised music cues from 20th century classical composers and free jazz icons like Anthony Braxton, Muhal Ricard Abrams, and Henry Threadgill."

The band heard on Simulacra includes Hinton and guitarist Edward Gavitt along with bassist Shawn Lovato and Yuma Uesaka and Anna Webber on various reeds and flutes.

Growing up in Dallas, Hinton started classical piano lessons when he was 4. But at age 9, he discovered the energy of hardcore groups like Black Flag and Minor Threat. A few years later, playing drums in the high school band, he was turned on to Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter and his path was set.

Simulacra, his second release (following a 2018 self-release), is the first stop on that path. The pieces are simulacra of the people who, through their mentorship, friendship or just the music they made, got him there. But the title shouldn't be taken to suggest simple carbon copies. As with his compositions, there are layers at work in the title.

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