Fridays on the Spectrum

Trumpeter and composer Adam O'Farrill will be presenting new music for quartet, that stems from a lifelong anxiety about the ocean. He will be performing with a band of older and more recent collaborators.

O'Farrill has performed, toured, and/or recorded with the established artists such as Rudresh Mahanthappa, Arturo O'Farrill, Stephan Crump, Mulatu Astatke, Christian McBride, and Mary Halvorson, in addition to rising artists such as Samora Pinderhughes, Onyx Collective, JIL, Kadawa, Gregorio Uribe, and Gabriel Zucker. In 2016, he released his first album as a leader, Stranger Days, on Sunnyside Records, about which Nate Chinen of the NY Times wrote: “Marshaling a sharp band of his peers, Mr. O’Farrill establishes both a firm identity and a willful urge to stretch and adapt." In early 2018, Adam will be releasing his second album with the same band- featuring Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, Walter Stinson, and Zack O'Farrill- which will include their take on different facets of traditional Mexican music, among other selections.

Guitarist and singer Grey Mcmurray has been called “simultaneously chilling and moving”(The Deli Magazine), “sublimely odd”(New York Magazine), and “the world’s least obtrusive guitarist”(The Guardian). Recently he has been performing with Colin Stetson’s Sorrow Ensemble, Beth Orton’s tour in support of her 2016 album Kidsticks, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), and in many small places very late at night, finishing up the material for his first solo record. He has performed/recorded with wide range of artists including Gil-Scott Heron, Meshell Ndegeocello, Tyondai Braxton, Alarm Will Sound, Olga Bell, Skuli Sverrissonn, Theo Bleckmann, So Percussion, The LA Phil, Sam Amidon, Ali Sethi, John Cale and Damian Rice. He is the co-leader of the duo itsnotyouitsme with Caleb Burhans, with four releases on New Amsterdam Records, the “sufi dream pop”(WNYC) trio, Tongues in Trees with Samita Sinha and Sunny Jain, and he hopes everyday to provoke joyful tears in strangers' eyes.