Double Bill Featuring Patricia Brennan (Roulette 2023-24 Resident) & Adam O’Farrill Duo and Patricia Brennan’s SeVeN

Patricia Brennan & Adam O’Farrill Duo: Inspired by friendship and common musical interests, this duo features a very unique instrumentation and approach to composition and improvisation. Both performers are to explore infinite sonic possibilities that blend and coexist to create new and exciting textures and spaces for improvisation. The music features compositions by both performers weaved by collective improvisations. The common goal is to discover new sonic spaces led by spontaneity and the uncertainty of the moment.

Patricia Brennan’s SeVeN is a septet comprised of some of the most creative leading improvisers of the time. The core instrumentation of this septet is Patricia Brennan’s original More Touch quartet featuring Kim Cass on bass, Marcus Gilmore on drums and Mauricio Herrera on percussion with the addition of three horn players: Adam O’Farrill on trumpet and electronics, Jon Irabagon on alto and sopranino saxophones and Mark Shim on tenor saxophone. This group is inspired by the concepts of roles of expansion and defiance of expectations. The common goal is to stay truth to the nature of the music regardless of the expectations each instrument presents by pushing the sonic and technical boundaries of the ensemble and the individual. The septet’s debut recording is expected to be released on September 6, 2024 on Pyroclastic Records.

Patricia Brennan & Adam O’Farrill Duo:
Patricia Brennan vibraphone, electronics
Adam O’Farrill trumpet, electronics

Patricia Brennan’s SeVeN:
Patricia Brennan vibraphone, electronics
Adam O’Farrill trumpet, electronics
Jon Irabagon alto saxophone, sopranino saxophone
Mark Shim tenor saxophone
Kim Cass bass
Dan Weiss drums
Mauricio Herrera percussion

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing. Watch below or on YouTube.

Patricia Brennan‘s album “Maquishti” was #4 in The NY Times top 10 jazz albums of 2021. Patricia received the rising star vibraphonist award on Downbeat 2022 Critics Poll and #4 vibraphonist of the year on the 2023 Critics Poll. Her album “More Touch” was listed on NPR’s Best Music of 2022 and the opener track “Unquiet Respect” was listed on NPR’s 100 Best Songs of 2022. Patricia is also an accomplished side person, working for artists such as Grammy winning Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Big Band and Mary Halvorson’s Amaryllis. Patricia is a Valley of Search, Pyroclastic, Audeze, and Bluehaus Mallets artist and is currently on the faculty at Manhattan School of Music, the New School and NYU Jazz.

Brooklyn native, Adam O’Farrill has emerged as a “rising star as a player and composer” (PopMatters) and “a blazing young trumpet talent” (The New York Times). Coming from a rich musical lineage, Adam’s grandfather was the boundary-pushing Cuban composer and arranger, Chico O’Farrill; his father is the composer, pianist, and activist, Arturo O’Farrill; his mother, Alison Deane, is a classical pianist and educator; and his brother, Zack O’Farrill, is a drummer and composer, who also performs in Adam’s band, Stranger Days. Further shaped by growing up in the rich and diverse musical community of New York City, Adam has cemented himself as one of the most in-demand trumpet players in the city, as well as internationally. He has collaborated and performed with the likes of Mary Halvorson, Hiromi, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Anna Webber, Samora Pinderhughes, Mulatu Astatke, Stimmerman, Vijay Iyer, and Son Lux.