participants
Eli Asher
Carter Bales
Fred Bergman
Raj Birla
Angelo Branford
Charlie Burnham
Capela Sur
Mario Cancel
Mike Carey
Gene Coleman
Sean Conly
Will Connell
Claire de Brunner
Andrew Drury
Melanie Dyer
Leonor Falcón
Gabby Fluke-Mogul
Ken Filiano
Haruna Fukazawa
Michel Gentile
Nick Gianni
Lou Grassi
Hilliard Greene
Stephanie Griffin
François Grillot
Brian Groder
Lloyd Haber
Jerome Harris
Thomas Heberer
Joe Hertenstein
Colin Hinton
Patrick Holmes
Jason Kao Hwang
Akira Ishiguro
Omar Kabir
Tashi Kaiser
Donia Jarrar
Westbrook Johnson
Richard Keene
Mike Khoury
Christof Knoche
Adam Lane
Deanna Lee
Nicolas Letman-Burtinovic
Mike List
Michael Lytle
Alandra Markman
Christopher McIntyre
Jason Mears
Ryan Messina
Colette Michaan
Anders Nilsson
Bern Nix
Bernardo Palombo
Sam Parsons
Don Payne
Joel Peterson
Ariel Pirotti
Lewis Porter
Cheryl Pyle
Aaron Shragge
David Sidman
Josh Sinton
Warren I. Smith
Nico Soffiato
Jake Sokolov-Gonzales
Leyya Mona-Tawil
Michael T.A. Thompson
Dave Treut
Harvey Valdes
Guillermo Vaisman
Annemarie Wiesner
Rod Williams
Justin Wood
patrick brennan coordinates ensembles, composes, & plays the alto saxophone. He’s pursued a contrarian and independent musical path for over 4 decades in pursuit of those yet unheard somethings just around the corner. His most recent recording with s0nic 0penings is tilting curvaceous on Clean Feed, and his book Ways & Sounds is available through Arteidolia Press.
https://www.patrickbrennansound.com/
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
His compositions are fresh and quite original. patrick brennan’s a first class saxophonist and composer, and his trio is one of the most interesting I’ve heard in some time.
— 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
CONTACT patrickb (at) patrickbrennansound (dot) com
PROJECTS
s0nic 0penings (small to mid scale)
KnCurrent (electronic quartet)
rōnin phasing (a capella)
transparency kestra (large)
KEY RECORDINGS
with s0nic 0penings :
introducing:soup (1981) – deep dish
molten opposites (1983) – deep dish
which way what (1995) – deep dish
rapt circle (2002) — Cadence
the drum is honor enough (2004) – CIMP
muhheankuntuk (2006)
— Clean Feed
tilting curvaceous (2023) – Clean Feed
with Ma’alem Najib Soudani (guimbri) & Nirankar Khalsa (percussion)
in Essaouira. Morocco:
Sudani (1999)
— deep dish
in duo with Lisle Ellis (bass viol):
saunters, walks, ambles (1998)
— CIMP
in duo with Abdul Moimeme (electroacoustic prepared guitars):
terraphonia (2019) — Creative Sources
Since moving to New York City in 1975, one-time bassist/painter patrick brennan has crafted a musical path that is open in its candor and indebtedness to all facets of black music. Much like trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, the alto saxophonist brews a thicket of his own distinct musical language that “unlike much contemporaneous vanguard music is built specifically upon the potentialities of swinging and polyrhythm.”
For the astute lay person this means moving the expressive expansiveness of trap playing and the drum choir into “the foreground of an entire orchestra’s intelligence.”
But none of this captures Brennan’s subtle humor and wit.
— Ludwig VanTrikt ___ Interview in All About Jazz
CONTACT
patrickb (at) transparency kestra (dot) org