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get the studio album, Rhombal, on LP, CD, digital:
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Ellery Eskelin, tenor saxophone; Adam O'Farrill, trumpet; Tyshawn Sorey, drums; Stephan Crump, bass and compositions.
This video was from one of several concerts of 2015 during which the quartet developed music for our first album, which arrived September 13th, 2016 on Papillon Sounds. This tune and the rest of the music is dedicated to my late brother, Patrick M. Crump

some critical response to the album:

”bristles with the unexpected and the lively” - Downbeat (****)

“his compositions possess an austere, haunting resonance” - Stereophile (****1/2)

“Best of 2016” - Los Angeles Times

“Best Jazz of 2016” - PopMatters

“constantly fascinating” - NextBop

“excellent” - New York Times

“highlights the true democratic principles of jazz” - AllAboutJazz

”(Crump’s) instrument thrums like it’s strung with coils of ship’s rope, booms like a whale’s heart, drones like a tree moaning in the wind” - NYC Jazz Record

“wonderfully unclassifiable…sounds old and new at the same time” - StepTempest

“solemn, spiritual, and, ultimately, celebratory” - Bandcamp

“O’Farrill and Eskelin engage in astute exchanges teeming with inventive lyricism, investing Crump’s harmonious melodies with a resolute emotional core” - Point of Departure