FONT Music 2016: Flexus
Sept 19-25, 2016 – NYC
Honoring John McNeil, Remembering Laurie Frink and featuring some of the best names of modern and adventurous trumpet playing today!
Honoring John McNeil, Remembering Laurie Frink and featuring some of the best names of modern and adventurous trumpet playing today!
By Thomas Bergeron, April 2016 – «When I was in college, a friend of mine played me a recording of Shane Endsley‘s composition Snake Pit from his debut album 2nd Guess. It was one of those addictive head-boppers for me, and at that time it was probably the coolest thing I had ever heard a trumpet player do. It wasn’t just the virtuosic trumpet playing that struck me. The structure of the compositions on that album were like nothing I had heard before. Like many of us trumpeters, Shane’s artistry became the doorway through which I was led to the mind-blowing world of Kneebody.»