Patrick Brennan

Patrick Brennan (* 1954 in Detroit ) is an American jazz - saxophonist and composer .

Patrick Brennan has worked in the Detroit jazz scene since the early 1980s, including with the formation SOUP , but - apart from his own productions in 1982 for his Deep Fish Imprint - only had the opportunity to record under his own name in 1998; The album Saunters, Walks, Ambles was created for the CIMP label in a duo with the Canadian bassist Lisle Ellis . In 1999 Brennan worked with Sudanese musicians for the album Sudani. In mid-2002 he recorded the album Rapt Circle with an expanded line-up for Cadence Jazz , followed by two concert recordings from the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal ; performing percussionist was Juma Santos Ayantola , who had played on Miles Davis ' album Bitches Brew . In 2004 the trio album The Drum Is Honor Enough (CIMP) followed with Steve Swell and the bassist and violinist Hilliard Greene . In 2007 Brennan worked in a trio with Hilliard Greene and percussionist David Pleasant, with whom he recorded the album Muhheankuntuk - River that Flows two Ways ( Clean Feed ),

In Allmusic, critic Chris Kelsey compares Brennan's style to Ornette Coleman .

Discographic notes

• Patrick Brennan, Maria Do Mar, Ernesto Rodrigues , Miguel Mira, Hernâni Faustino , Abdul Moimême: The Sudden Bird of Waiting (Creative Sources Recordings, 2020)

Movies

• 2012: Breaking Dawn Part 2 as Liam

literature

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .

Web links

• Web presence
• Review of Rapt Circle and The Drum Is Honor Enough (Bad Alchemy 44) (PDF file; 2.29 MB)
• Record review by Chris Kelsey in Allmusic (English)