Bristle
Bristle is:
Randy McKean & Cory Wright, reeds (saxes, clarinets, flutes)
Murray Campbell, oboes & violins
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Contact: randymckean2 [at] gmail.com
Bristle EPK One-SheetCelebrating CD Release Future(s) Now(s)Email randymckean2[at]gmail.com for hi-resolution photoAll Photos: Myles Boisen
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Selected Quotes
Praise for Future(s) Now(s):
Best Of:
Future(s) Now(s) named one of the Top California Jazz Releases of 2014 by KQED Arts’ Andrew Gilbert, and snags shout-outs in El Intruso’s Best of 2014 Survey and Best of 2015 Survey.
“A strong second outing for Bristle, an album where you can sense how much they enjoyed playing this music. An upbeat mix of chamber music…stretched-out improv, jazz, and surprising touches of folk music. …[T]he best improvised moments [are] where all four players criss-cross ideas, like friends skipping stones on a beach.”
Memory Select
“This music is much closer to chamber music than jazz but without the straightjacket of seriousness that plagues certain chamber ensembles… charming in a way that is hard to predict. The composing here is consistently well-thought out, using each member in diverse ways.…a marvel of invention throughout.”
Downtown Music Gallery
Praise for Bulletproof:
“I was constantly surprised by the changes in direction and shrewd harmonic twists…this quartet doesn’t quite sound like any other unit…gem of the week…”
Downtown Music Gallery
“Fun and thought-provoking…light-footed and quick…friendly and swingy but then revels in the antics of modern classical music: sudden stop/start moments and the occasional raspy blare from a sax…”
Memory Select
“The group is fresh, vibrant and unpredictable, starting with jaunty ditties or broad soundscapes but then pulling out the rug with outbursts of wild improv, abrupt changes in trajectory or gradual disntegration.”
KZSU 90.1 fm
“No genre is safe from their predatory gene-splicing”
WFMU’s Beware of the Blog
“…the closest parallel is the Challengers of the Unknown…”
Thrills and Spills with Bristle (The Union)