Swallow Hill Music presents Matt Flinner Trio & Grant Gordy QuartetSaturday, Feb 25 at 8 pm
71 E Yale Ave, Denver 80210
$17 Advance; $19 Day of Show.
Since its inception in 2002, the Matt Flinner Trio has been forging new pathways for the standard bluegrass trio. Mandolinist Matt Flinner, guitarist Ross Martin and bassist Eric Thorin cover a wide variety of musical styles—all with the common ground of American roots as well as originality. Bluegrass, jazz and Celtic music are all present here, but not necessarily overtly or in a contrived sense. Call it Americana Music, or New Acoustic, or Chamber Grass, or just call it Great Music; whatever label you put on it, it is guaranteed to be fresh and original, and definitely something you’ve never quite heard before.
The trio began doing “Music du Jour” tours in 2006, in which each member of the group writes a new composition the day of the show, and all three new pieces are performed on that evening’s concert. After several of these tours the trio recorded its first CD, Music du Jour, on Compass Records in 2009. They have now performed over 75 “du Jour” shows and continue to explore new frontiers and new sounds in acoustic string band music. Their second CD, Winter Harvest, is due for release on Compass on January 31, 2012.
From the gift of an A&L acoustic guitar from his blues/R&B guitar-playing flat-picking and composer father and sharing time and technique, through Led Zeppelin rock and Grateful Dead roll. To time in bands, mastering improvisation and other concepts, to loving the blues and discovering bebop, modern jazz, straight-ahead bluegrass and the classics of Bach and Beethoven: What Grant Gordy actually has been doing is continuous study.
In there was 1996’s DGQ-20, the three-disc set by the David Grisman Quintet, the album Gordy says completely changed his life. “I was hearing all these cool new chords and complex arranged tunes and great players and something about it just fit for me. It even got me started thinking about writing my own tunes,” he says.
Gordy put together his own quartet in 2006 that gigged for a couple of years and then got the call from David “Dawg” Grisman to sub in and then ultimately join the Quintet as guitarist. Says Grisman of Gordy, “[His] guitar stylings offer a rare blend of flat-picking virtuosity, jazz exploration and classical sensibility.”
His self-titled album, released in 2010, made the top of Acoustic Guitar Magazine’s Senior Editor Scott Nygaard’s personal list of the best 10 albums of 2010.
www.myspace.com/mattflinner
www.grantgordy.com
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