Dan Weiss Trio at The Hungry Brain

The Dan Weiss Trio celebrates the release of their critically-acclaimed new album Utica Box. 

"An inventive drummer whose technical facility is easily matched by his compositional ambition, Dan Weiss is not a percussionist to be trifled with. Whether he is offering idiosyncratic homages to some of jazz's foremost rhythm-men, as on his Sixteen: Drummers Suite (Pi Recordings, 2016) or attempting to fuse jazz and prog metal, as on Starebaby (Pi Recordings, 2018), Weiss is always looking to challenge listeners in new, surprising ways. At the same time, his obvious love of groove ensures that, no matter how forbidding the music might become, there will always be an entry-point enabling heads to bob and feet to tap...

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The Dan Weiss Trio celebrates the release of their critically-acclaimed new album Utica Box. 

"An inventive drummer whose technical facility is easily matched by his compositional ambition, Dan Weiss is not a percussionist to be trifled with. Whether he is offering idiosyncratic homages to some of jazz's foremost rhythm-men, as on his Sixteen: Drummers Suite (Pi Recordings, 2016) or attempting to fuse jazz and prog metal, as on Starebaby (Pi Recordings, 2018), Weiss is always looking to challenge listeners in new, surprising ways. At the same time, his obvious love of groove ensures that, no matter how forbidding the music might become, there will always be an entry-point enabling heads to bob and feet to tap. Nowhere is this better realized than Utica Box, a stimulating record that harnesses Weiss's conceptual sophistication to some of the most engaging music he has made to date." — All About Jazz

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