The Falcon Main Stage | No Tickets | No Cover | Donations Encouraged | Reservations Required
This project is made possible with support from Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works program, funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
"Slocum’s writing and playing emphasize a breathing, expressive, virtually speech-like flow of shifting meters... The young drummer constantly surprises, embracing the kit as a reactive and explorative multi-percussion whole. A fresh voice." - -Modern Drummer
"A tastefully polyrhythmic drummer with a penchant for melodicism." -JazzTimes...
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The Falcon Main Stage | No Tickets | No Cover | Donations Encouraged | Reservations Required
This project is made possible with support from Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works program, funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
"Slocum’s writing and playing emphasize a breathing, expressive, virtually speech-like flow of shifting meters... The young drummer constantly surprises, embracing the kit as a reactive and explorative multi-percussion whole. A fresh voice." - -Modern Drummer
"A tastefully polyrhythmic drummer with a penchant for melodicism." -JazzTimes
Hailed as "one of his generation's most highly regarded drummers" (Jazz Police), Slocum earned a reputation as a distinctive, inventive and lyrical composer. He is the recipient of numerous composition grants and commissions. Matt's's ensembles have been featured throughout North America and Europe at venues such as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Yoshi's, the Blue Note, Earshot Jazz Festival, Saratoga Jazz Festival, Twin Cities Jazz Festival and the Soka International Jazz Festival among others.
Frequently referred to as a "musical" drummer, Slocum possesses a uniquely personal voice on the instrument and is a propulsive, melodic and dynamic accompanist and soloist. He has performed and/or recorded with artists such as Seamus Blake, Alan Broadbent, Steve Cardenas, Gerald Clayton, Taylor Eigsti, Aaron Goldberg, Jon Irabagon, Larry Koonse, Wynton Marsalis, Lage Lund, Linda Oh, Alan Pasqua, Jerome Sabbagh, Jaleel Shaw, Walter Smith III, Anthony Wilson, Sam Yahel and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
Over the past 30+ years, Taylor Eigsti has had the good fortune of performing, touring or recording with luminaries Dave Brubeck, Chris Botti, Joshua Redman, Sting, John Mayer, Esperanza Spalding, Chick Corea, Terence Blanchard, Joshua Bell, Snarky Puppy, among many others.
Eigsti has travelled internationally quite extensively with his trio and quartet, and also has been a frequent and integral part of the regular touring bands of Chris Botti, Eric Harland Voyager, Gretchen Parlato, to name a few.
Eigsti' has performed at premiere venues worldwide, including a private performance for former President Bill Clinton.
As one of the most admired, accomplished bassists working in jazz today, Larry Grenadier has been praised as “a deeply intuitive” musician by The New York Times and as an instrumentalist with a “fluid sense of melody” by Bass Player magazine.
Grenadier has created an expansive body of work in collaboration with the genre’s most influential musicians – with icons Joe Henderson and Stan Getz to decades performing alongside pianist Brad Mehldau, from working with Paul Motian and Pat Metheny to co-leading the cooperative trio Fly (with Mark Turner and Jeff Ballard) and quartet Hudson (with John Scofield, John Medeski and Jack DeJohnette).
Over a career that spans three decades, it has been Grenadier’s instrumental virtuosity and instantly recognizable tone that have made him an in-demand collaborator but also his uncommon artistic sensitivity, imagination and curiosity.
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