Bright Dog Red
Albany, New York, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2015 | INDIE
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JazzTimes: “Best kept secret in the avant-jazz underground…BDR has turned up nothing but aces over a rollicking three-album stretch on the Ropeadope label, sublimely marrying jazz with hip-hop, funk, and electronic music…part 1980s-era Ornette Coleman and Prime Time, part Lounge Lizards, part A Tribe Called Quest….The consummate genre-juggling party band.”
Downbeat: "★★★ ½. Proudly unanchored improvisation....an unedited stream of musical consciousness...burns with bop swing. The melodic cogency, rhythmic clarity and sonic ingenuity in these ad hoc live improvisations astounds.”
Glide Magazine: “BDR melds the influences of free-form jazz, funk, rock, and hip-hop into their signature sound. Much is made about improvisation or playing in the moment. While some bands pay casual reference to those phrases, as if to think it will improve their credibility, Bright Dog Red (BDR) makes it their mantra. They are the epitome of in-the-moment playing."
Modern Drummer: “A seamless blend of seemingly disparate influences, creating a post-modern mélange that ranges from the familiar to the surprising…thought-provoking, toe-tapping, boundary-defying...inspired music.”
Jazz Journal, UK: “An enjoyable jazz and ‘hip-pop’ hybrid…a seamless and well-crafted product.”
Nu Jazz Sounds UK: "Amongst the most exciting and creative jazz musicians out there today.”
Albany Times Union: "Jazz outfit riding creativity high."
SF Gate: "The most dynamic incarnation of Bright Dog Red yet."
Dan Ouellette, Jazz and Beyond Intel, US: “Ups the ante of free music…bursting with improvisation that defies categorization.”
Marlbank, UK: "Spirited, a full throttle go-for-it charge for the line affair."
UK Vibe: "★★★★★. The music runs a joyous gamut now synonymous with the BDR brand."
A Closer Listen, UK: "Folds in a generous amount of hip-hop, funk, poetry and freestyling. The fact that the band has opened for Parliament Funkadelic says all we need to know."
Blue in Green Radio, UK: “Spirited and inspired jazz that skillfully weaves in additional elements of electronica and hip-hop.” - Various publications in the US and abroad
Bio
Bright Dog Red (BDR), an improvising collective from Albany, has released multiple critically acclaimed albums since signing with Ropeadope in 2018.
Celebrated for “sublimely marrying jazz with hip-hop, funk, and electronic music" (JazzTimes), BDR has long been “a fixture on the NYC jazz and improvisation scene” (Jazz Journal). The group’s "proudly unanchored improvisation" (Downbeat) has been described as “part Ornette Coleman and Prime Time, part Lounge Lizards, part A Tribe Called Quest” (JazzTimes). Others have compared the group to “Mahavishnu Orchestra meets Digable Planets” (Paul Schulman), “Romantic Warrior era Return to Forever” (Rimas e Batidas), and “electronic Ahmad Jamal" (Don Lucoff).
BDR is comprised of a rotating cast of players. In addition to Joe Pignato (drums, percussion, concepts), Under the Porch features Eric Person (soprano and alto saxophones, flute, effects), Tim Lefebvre (electric bass), Tyreek Jackson (electric bass and guitar), Cody Davies (sounds), MikeLaBombard (tenor saxophone, effects), Anthony Berman (acoustic bass), and Matt Coonan (poetry, freestyling, voice).
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