In 2005 two Dubliners, pianist Greg Felton and drummer Sean Carpio met New York trumpeter Jacob Wick at the Banff Centre‘s International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music and not for the first time, the famous Canadian artistic retreat has been the catalyst for a memorable first contact. Trumpet, piano and drums may seem an unwieldy combination, but in this music, its personality that counts, and White Rocket have it in abundance. That, and a shared love of the rhythmic systems of India’s carnatic music and everything from Nick Drake and Hindemith to Autechre and Meshuggah. These influences are not overt, but do offer compelling evidence of open musical minds at work. Comfortable and self assured with the contemporary jazz idiom, and yet liberated from it, the creative axis is in constant movement between this triad of young musicians.
Their debut CD, White Rocket, was released to critical acclaim on Diatribe Recordings in 2008 and is available for purchase at Diatribe, Amazon, and on iTunes.
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on December 13th, 2010 at 21:47 #
[...] Wick currently leads two groups in New York – hungry cowboy and A Mown Lawn – and co-leads White Rocket, a trio with Dublin-based performer/composers Greg Felton and Seán Carpio, as well as performing [...]