My new quartet is a deeply humbling experience. Elliott Sharp on guitars, Billy Martin on drums, Colin Stetson on saxophones, and me on keyboard percussion. I reached out to those geniuses two years ago and to my delight they were willing to give it a go. I knew it would work, and it has. We’re all composers as well as improvisers, and intuitively I felt that the combination of our musical and personal personalities would gel in a beautiful way and our perspective as composers would deepen the improvising, with a broader perspective on sound, pitch, rhythm, and orchestration. We’ve had some great shows so far at the Big Ears and FIMAV festivals, plus shows at clubs in Brooklyn and Philadelphia. We now have three recordings out and I anticipate more for the future as we’re recording most of our live shows.
Payton MacDonald 