Adam O’Farrill’s ELEPHANT

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$20 (General Admission) 7:00pm Show Get Tickets Photo by Camilo Fuentealba Brevis Acclaimed trumpeter and composer Adam O’Farrill introduces ELEPHANT, his first quartet as the sole horn voice, with a self-titled debut released this year via Out of Your Head Records. ELEPHANT unites four rising New York–based musicians: O’Farrill, pianist Yvonne Rogers, bassist Walter Stinson, and drummer Russell Holzman. Rogers combines deep study with fearless spontaneity; Stinson balances consummate fundamentals with elastic, expressive musicianship; and Holzman—an old friend of O’Farrill’s from LaGuardia High School—melds natural swing with high-precision, electronic-rooted rhythms and a finely tuned sense of dynamics. ELEPHANT draws from a wide constellation of musical influences—post-bop, electronic music, classical minimalism, Radiohead, Jonny Greenwood’s film scores, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and more—absorbed organically rather than as overt crossover gestures. The album’s centerpiece, The Sea Triptych , reflects water’s comfort and mystery across three pieces, from the crashing textures of “Along th