Simon Jermyn is an electric bassist, guitarist and composer originally from Dublin, Ireland living in Brooklyn, NYC.
He is a member of a number of ensembles including his own group, Trot A Mouse with Tom Rainey, Ingrid Laubrock and Mat Maneri, Jim Black's Smash and Grab, a collaborative trio with Allison Miller and Jerome Sabbagh, Howard Peach (with Lander Gyslelinck and Chris Speed),Glue Gun Optimism, his solo project of commissioned tape pieces entitled Spirit Spout and indie folk rock chamber group Briars of North America.
Since moving to New York Simon has had the opportunity to perform with Bill McHenry, Ben Monder, Jim Black, John Hollenbeck, Oscar Noriega, Chris Speed, Tony Malaby, Dan Tepfer, Ches Smith, Loren Stillman, Jonathan Finlayson, Satoshi Takeishi, The Mivos Quartet, Jacob Sacks, Jeff Davis, Briggan Krauss, Tommy Crane, Tyshawn Sorey, Nate Wood, Kirk Knuffke, Empyrean Atlas and Glass Ghost amongst others....
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Simon Jermyn is an electric bassist, guitarist and composer originally from Dublin, Ireland living in Brooklyn, NYC.
He is a member of a number of ensembles including his own group, Trot A Mouse with Tom Rainey, Ingrid Laubrock and Mat Maneri, Jim Black's Smash and Grab, a collaborative trio with Allison Miller and Jerome Sabbagh, Howard Peach (with Lander Gyslelinck and Chris Speed),Glue Gun Optimism, his solo project of commissioned tape pieces entitled Spirit Spout and indie folk rock chamber group Briars of North America.
Since moving to New York Simon has had the opportunity to perform with Bill McHenry, Ben Monder, Jim Black, John Hollenbeck, Oscar Noriega, Chris Speed, Tony Malaby, Dan Tepfer, Ches Smith, Loren Stillman, Jonathan Finlayson, Satoshi Takeishi, The Mivos Quartet, Jacob Sacks, Jeff Davis, Briggan Krauss, Tommy Crane, Tyshawn Sorey, Nate Wood, Kirk Knuffke, Empyrean Atlas and Glass Ghost amongst others.
Charlotte Greve is a New York-based alto saxophonist and composer originally from Berlin. With a unique concept of tone and composition, she is making a mark on both the Brooklyn and German jazz scenes. Her band Lisbeth Quartett, has released four albums so far– Grow (Doublemoon Records, 2009),Constant Travellers (Traumton Records, 2011), Framed Frequencies (Traumton Records, 2014), Lisbeth Live (Traumton Records, 2016 ). The second of these was awarded the Echo Jazz Prize in 2012. In October 2017 they will release their new album There Is only make on Traumton Records.
In Brooklyn, Charlotte formed a new band named Wood River. They released their Debut LP in February 2015 and in 2017 collaborated with a 60 piece choir to perform the premiere of "Sediments We Move", a piece written by Greve.
Further projects in New York are the Alto Saxophone quartet Asterids with Alto colleagues Caroline Davis, Curtis Macdonald and Caleb Curtis as well as a trio with Vinnie Sperrazza and Chris Tordini called The Choir Invisible. As a sidewoman Charlotte appears regularly in different outfits of Arooj Aftabsband on Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet and synthesizer.
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