John Clark's 'Odd Couple Quintet Plus' at ShapeShifter Lab

FRENCH HORN AND BASSOON TO FRONT PERFORMANCE.

JOHN CLARK (French Horn) and MICHAEL RABINOWITZ (Bassoon) will perform as members of a new quintet playing original compositions and jazz arrangements of classical works.

The new group is aptly named since the two instruments are truly an odd couple to front a jazz group. Clark and Rabinowitz are arguably the leading jazz players of these difficult instruments, and Clark comments: “We weren’t thrown out of our traditional roles (in the orchestra) the way Oscar and Felix were ignominiously thrown out of their homes. We boldly set out on this perilous journey and we defy critics to call our instruments odd!!”...

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FRENCH HORN AND BASSOON TO FRONT PERFORMANCE.

JOHN CLARK (French Horn) and MICHAEL RABINOWITZ (Bassoon) will perform as members of a new quintet playing original compositions and jazz arrangements of classical works.

The new group is aptly named since the two instruments are truly an odd couple to front a jazz group. Clark and Rabinowitz are arguably the leading jazz players of these difficult instruments, and Clark comments: “We weren’t thrown out of our traditional roles (in the orchestra) the way Oscar and Felix were ignominiously thrown out of their homes. We boldly set out on this perilous journey and we defy critics to call our instruments odd!!”

Members of the OCQ are: JOHN CLARK (French Horn), a jazz and freelance musician in New York City who has performed and/or recorded with Gil Evans, McCoy Tyner, the Mingus Orchestra, the Heath Brothers, Jaco Pastorius, among many others; MICHAEL RABINOWITZ (Bassoon), who has worked with artists such as Joe Lovano, Wynton Marsalis, Elvis Costello and is a founding member of the Charles Mingus Orchestra; FREDDIE BRYANT (Guitar), who has collaborated with musicians from a wide variety of backgrounds such as Salif Keita, Badal Roy, Tom Harrell, Sheila Jordan, Randy Brecker, the Indian sitarist Shubhendra Rao, and traditional groups in Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E.; MARTY JAFFE (Bass), who is a winner of the 2012 YoungArts Award, a program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts that identifies and assists emerging artists; and ABE FOGLE (Drums), currently working with Rob Thomas of ‘Matchbox Twenty,’ and who has also toured and/or performed with Kenny Garrett, George Coleman, Kool and the Gang, D’Angelo, Kelis, to name just a few.

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