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"In their five years together, Green Light has become a better band than the more heralded Medeski, Martin & Wood. Those familiar with John Scofield's Überjam session will find quite a bit of interest in Green Light's Patient Like the Moon: a truly enjoyable find."
- Peter Sanchez, All About Jazz
"Like Coltrane, Green Light extends musically out to the farthest reaches of jazz-fusion and rock and roll space to connect what is happening inside the instrumentalist and the listener. Green Light's pulsating beat lights the way for a new generation to discover the wonder of limitless risk taking."
- Bill Whiting, Honest Tune
Instrumental trio Green Light is drummer Adam Snow, bassist Dustin Hofsess, and guitarist Kevin Gill. This is a band that is coming from many different places musically. As a result, the Green Light audience is made up of an interesting variety of people: jazzers and rockers, the folky and the funky, hippies and computer programmers, the drunk and the devout. Each of them finds something about Green Lights music that draws them into the swirling vortex of energy that this band creates.
The group draws from a deep well of influences. Some key points of departure are: the spirituality, intense energy, and exploratory improvisation of saxophone master John Coltrane; the raw blues-rock power, and psychedelic colors of Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd; the funky rhythmic tension and down-home soul of the Meters and Sly & the Family Stone; the groundbreaking jazz/rock/funk fusion of Miles Davis; the beautiful reggaegrooves of Bob Marley & the Wailers. As well as drawing inspiration from these relatively well known artists, Green Light infuses their music with sounds from all over the globe, including African, Indian, Middle Eastern,Cuban, and Brazilian musical elements.
Green Light music is powerful, raw, soulful, mysterious, spontaneous, positive and life-affirming. This is music made for people who long for originality and unadulterated creativity. To experience Green Light is to be taken on a consciousness-expanding trip.
"Green Light has created a trademark sound that serves as a root to their music. From there, the musicianship shines far and wide, and the compositions grow perpetually and completely without a net." - Jamie Lee, Hittin' the Note Magazine
"The expressive guitar/bass/drums trio Green Light draws heavily from many styles of sound to create their own propulsive, psyco-cosmic blend of instrumental madness. Foreboding, yet funky, Green Light gives the go-ahead for danceable jazz/funk/fusion with it's first proper CD, My Experiments With Groove." - Homegrown Music Network
"Combining dexterous playing and a real ensemble feel for jazz, funk, rock and world music, no words are necessary when the band tries to convey a message to its audience Green Light is one of those rare bands that make strong, melodic instrumental music that is also good for dancing. All three musicians are expert instrumentalists but never let their own solos get in the way of the overall composition." - Jeff Eason, The Mountain Times - Boone, NC
"From rock fans to jazz fans, everyone walks away happy. If cool Reggae or hot funk is the prescribed remedy for what ails you, Green Light is just what the doctor ordered It would behoove the true believers of modern jazz to lend a lucid ear to the genius that is Green Light." - Timothy G. Beeman II, ESP Magazine - Winston Salem, NC
"These guys should be huge. They are a modern day Band of Gypsies." - Live Music Archive
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