Stephan Crump's Rosetta Trio at Arts + Literature Laboratory

On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 8pm, Rosetta Trio will perform all original music at Arts + Literature Laboratory. Tickets are $15 in advance and $15 at the door. Student tickets $5 off with a valid school ID. Advance ticket sales end 1 hour before the show. Doors open at 7:30pm.

Best known for his dynamic founding role in the Grammy-nominated Vijay Iyer Trio, Memphis-bred, Brooklynite bassist/composer Stephan Crump leads his own uniquely colorful and hard-grooving all-string Rosetta Trio, featuring guitarists Liberty Ellman and Jamie Fox. Hailed as a string ensemble for the new century by All About Jazz, the group formed in 2005 to record an album of pieces written in the aftermath of 9/11...

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On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 8pm, Rosetta Trio will perform all original music at Arts + Literature Laboratory. Tickets are $15 in advance and $15 at the door. Student tickets $5 off with a valid school ID. Advance ticket sales end 1 hour before the show. Doors open at 7:30pm.

Best known for his dynamic founding role in the Grammy-nominated Vijay Iyer Trio, Memphis-bred, Brooklynite bassist/composer Stephan Crump leads his own uniquely colorful and hard-grooving all-string Rosetta Trio, featuring guitarists Liberty Ellman and Jamie Fox. Hailed as a string ensemble for the new century by All About Jazz, the group formed in 2005 to record an album of pieces written in the aftermath of 9/11. That album, Rosetta, was greeted with inclusion on multiple top ten lists and ecstatic reviews for its narrative depth and outstanding performances. Their second release, Reclamation (2010), ingenious originals ( The New Yorker ), bareness in emotion ( NPR ), was much more than a follow-up effort, though it was the earlier album that gave the trio its name and its mission: to inhabit the dynamic and rhythmic flexibility of a drumless ensemble and embrace its challenges and expanded responsibilities; to reject restrictions of genre; to explore different territories of feel, texture, color; to groove. With Thwirl (2013) a declaration of increased proportions, a culmination of superior interplay, chemistry, delicacy and vision ( Downbeat ), the group revealed a new telepathy. Rosetta Trio, whose members have for years collaborated with many of the leading lights in the New York creative music scene, has developed into a formidable unit, sensitively and powerfully rendering Crumps often profound, sometimes playful and always honest music.

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