Darren Johnston And Friends With A Tribute To Eric Dolphy’s Far Cry at Musically Minded Academy

“Johnston explores the limits of his instrument with a hankering for originality…running away and never looking back.”
– San Francisco Bay Guardian, “Pick of the Week,” July 5-11, 2006.

The In The Moment Concert Series is now presented in partnership with Jazz In The Neighborhood, at Musically Minded Academy. Tickets available at: http://jazzintheneighborhood.org/events/tickets/

Darren Johnston tackles the classic 1962 Eric Dolphy album Far Cry in an entirely new light. Far Cry was originally on New Jazz, which was a subsidiary of the Prestige label. The original featured an all-star band with Dolphy on woodwinds, a young Booker Little on trumpet, Jaki Byard on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Roy Haynes on drums. Far Cry is one of the few studio recordings of the Dolphy-Little partnership. It is also one of the earliest appearances of bassist Ron Carter on record. Dolphy took part in Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz session before recording this album on the same day. This concert will re-imagine these songs, a collection of Dolphy and Byard originals, as well as some standards, with Jordan Samuels, guitar; Jordan Glenn, drums; Danny Lubin-Ladin, trombone; Miles Wick, bass, and Johnston on trumpet....

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“Johnston explores the limits of his instrument with a hankering for originality…running away and never looking back.”
– San Francisco Bay Guardian, “Pick of the Week,” July 5-11, 2006.

The In The Moment Concert Series is now presented in partnership with Jazz In The Neighborhood, at Musically Minded Academy. Tickets available at: http://jazzintheneighborhood.org/events/tickets/

Darren Johnston tackles the classic 1962 Eric Dolphy album Far Cry in an entirely new light. Far Cry was originally on New Jazz, which was a subsidiary of the Prestige label. The original featured an all-star band with Dolphy on woodwinds, a young Booker Little on trumpet, Jaki Byard on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Roy Haynes on drums. Far Cry is one of the few studio recordings of the Dolphy-Little partnership. It is also one of the earliest appearances of bassist Ron Carter on record. Dolphy took part in Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz session before recording this album on the same day. This concert will re-imagine these songs, a collection of Dolphy and Byard originals, as well as some standards, with Jordan Samuels, guitar; Jordan Glenn, drums; Danny Lubin-Ladin, trombone; Miles Wick, bass, and Johnston on trumpet.

Since settling in San Francisco in 1997, Canada-born trumpeter/composer/songwriter Darren Johnston has collaborated and recorded with an extremely diverse cross-section of artists. His interests rotate around composing instrumental music, writing songs, and performing all styles of jazz, experimental and purely improvised music, as well as traditional music of the Balkans, Greece, Macedonia, Turkey, and the Arab world. These interests have coalesced into his primary ensemble of late, Broken Shadows. He has also performed and/or recorded with luminaries such as Fred Frith, ROVA Sax Quartet, Myra Melford, Ben Goldberg, Matt Wilson, Hamid Drake, Marshall Allen, Larry Ochs, and others.

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