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s0nic 0penings: tilting curvaceous

A disc of extraordinary group focus and playing equally inventive and concise, giving the impression that every single note is inevitable in its incisiveness. brennan’s is music of extreme dynamism supporting a vision somehow both grandiose and accessible. 
— Marc Medwin, Point of Departure, June, 2023

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brennan plays within a sense of the jazz continuum, a highly expressive player possessed of a brilliant economy of line who can infest a fragment of a scale with tremendous psychic weight. — Point of Departure

A superior musical endeavor featuring a rare musical vision performed at the highest level. — All About Jazz New York

His compositions are fresh and quite original. patrick brennan’s a first class saxophonist and composer. — Cadence

An abstract conception balanced with plenty of wit and soul. — Time Out

His sound isn’t easy to file. It’s not totally free, unhinged, but what it’s tethered to is hard to say. It’s not exactly melodic either. His sound is puzzling and inviting. He could hold an audience unaccompanied. — The Other Night at Quinns

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→ Book: Ways & Sounds now available from Arteidolia Press.

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February 10, 2024

Interview with Šamo Salamon
Dr. Jazz Talks #409
Conversations around the concepts behind brennan’s book Ways & Sounds, the tilting curvaceous recording, and some of the history around his various musical initiatives.


September 8, 2023

s0nic 0penings at the Rhythm in the Kitchen Festival, NYC

patrick brennan – composition & saxophone
Hilliard Greene – contrabass
Jason Kao Hwang – viola
Michael T.A. Thompson – trap drums

Composition: tilting curvaceous (in varying phases)


June 19, 2022

pb conducts the Karl Berger Improvisers Orchestra on short notice.
El Taller Latino Americano: Music Without Borders series

Michael Wimberley, drums * Rod Williams, piano * Annemarie Wiesner, violin * Westbrook Johnson, trombone * Bill Horberg, flute * Patrick Holmes, clarinet * Thomas Heberer, trumpet * Ratzo Harris, contrabass * Stephanie Griffin, viola * Haruna Fukazawa, flute * Welf Dorr, alto saxophone — Composition, rough hue (pb)
 

April 13, 2022
s0nic 0penings
El Taller Latino Americano: Music Without Borders series
pb, composition & saxophone * Hilliard Greene, contrabass  * Michael TA Thompson,
trap drums

September 12, 2021
s0nic 0penings
Excerpt from titling curvaceous studio recording for Clean Feed CF613, 2023 release,
pb, composition & saxophone * Hilliard Greene, contrabass * Brian Groder, trumpet & fleugelhorn * Michael TA Thompson, trap drums * Rod Williams, piano

January 6, 2019
s0nic 0penings
JazzHabitat Presents, NYC
pb, composition & saxophone * Hilliard Greene & Ken Filiano, contrabass * Jason Kao Hwang, violin * Thomas Heberer, trumpet * Michael TA Thompson, trap drums


November 12, 2018
transparency kestra
Bushwick Improvised Music Series, Brooklyn, NY
Eli Asher, trumpet * pb, composition & saxophone * Sean Conly, contrabass * Haruna Fukazawa, flutes & piccolo * Lloyd Haber + Joe Hertenstein + Colin Hinton, percussion * Patrick Holmes, clarinet * Akira Ishiguro, guitar * Jason Mears, sopranino saxophone * Matt Mottel, synthesizer * David Sidman, guitar

October 28, 2018
s0nic 0penings
Quinn’s, Beacon, NY
pb, composition & saxophone * Hilliard Greene & Ken Filiano, contrabass * Thomas Heberer, trumpet * Michael TA Thompson, trap drums
Video by Tola Brennan


June 14, 2018
transparency kestra
El Taller Latino Americano, NYC
pb, composition & alto saxophone * Brian Groder, trumpet  * Lloyd Haber, percussion * Thomas Heberer, trumpet * Jason Kao Hwang, violin * Jason Mears, sopranino & baritone saxophones * Cheryl Pyle, Alto Flute * David Sidman, guitar * Annemarie Wiesner, violin

April 8. 2018
patrick brennan & Abdul Moimême
Excerpt from studio recording terraphonia — Lisboa, Portugal
Creative Sources Recordings, CS 579 CD
pb, alto saxophone * Abdul Moimême, 2 electric guitars (played simultaneously) with objects

December 12, 2017
s0nic 0penings
Arts for Art Justice is Compassion Festival NYC
pb, composition & saxophone * Hilliard Greene, contrabass * Brian Groder, trumpet & fleugelhorn * Michael TA Thompson, trap drums
Video by Don Mount

March 19, 2017
rōnin phasing (solo saxophone)
1+2+3 Series, Brooklyn, NY

Monk’s Mood (Monk) * tilting curvaceous * rough hue * Chronology (O. Coleman)