Bradford - Gjerstad Quartet at Philadelphia Art Alliance

Ars Nova Workshop is pleased to present the Bradford - Gjerstad Quartet. Frode Gjerstad was born in Stavanger, Norway and started playing improvised music as a trumpeter in 1968, eventually picking up reed instruments a year later. Around 1981, Gjerstad began a fruitful collaboration with British drummer John Stevens that led to the forming of the group “Detail,” which in 1986 released the album Detail Plus featuring Bradford on cornet. Bradford played with Ornette Coleman's quartet in the 1950s and 1960s, and has played with other artists such as Eric Dolphy, Charlie Haden, John Carter and David Murray, a student of his in the seventies...

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Ars Nova Workshop is pleased to present the Bradford - Gjerstad Quartet. Frode Gjerstad was born in Stavanger, Norway and started playing improvised music as a trumpeter in 1968, eventually picking up reed instruments a year later. Around 1981, Gjerstad began a fruitful collaboration with British drummer John Stevens that led to the forming of the group “Detail,” which in 1986 released the album Detail Plus featuring Bradford on cornet. Bradford played with Ornette Coleman's quartet in the 1950s and 1960s, and has played with other artists such as Eric Dolphy, Charlie Haden, John Carter and David Murray, a student of his in the seventies. Norway's Ingebright Haaker Flaten has recorded with Gjerstad’s Circulasione Totale Orchestra and in his quartet with Bradford and drummer Paal Nilsson-Love. Their latest release was Kampen on NoBusiness Records in 2012. Drummer Frank Rosaly is active in projects in New York, Chicago, and Europe, including Matana Robert’s Chicago Project, The Rempis Percussion Quartet, Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten Quintet, Scorch Trio, Jeff Parker/Nels Cline Quartet, Chicago Lucern Exchange and others. This is the quartet's Philadelphia debut.

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