The Creative Music Series Presents Ellwood Epps & Togetherness!

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Togetherness! began in Montreal in 2016, and the Boston edition was born in 2019. Both groups have been active across Canada and the US, performing joyful, adventurous, swinging music from South Africa and beyond. At the heart of the music are compositions by Abdullah Ibrahim, Dudu Pukwana, Johnny Dyani, William Parker, Don Cherry, Ellwood Epps, and more.

The band you'll hear brings together 6 of the Boston area's strongest, freest, and most distinct musicians in a highly unified group sound which aims to uplift the band and listeners together.

Jeb Bishop (trombone),

Jorrit Dijkstra (saxophones),

Nathan McBride (bass),

Curt Newton (drums),

Matt Crane (percussion),

Ellwood Epps (trumpet).

Ellwood Epps is an improvising trumpet player, active in creative music scenes across Canada and the US. He has performed with Steve Lacy, William Parker, Josh Zubot, Henry Grimes, Le Quan Ninh, Joe McPhee, Butch Morris, John Butcher, and Marshall Allen, and appears on more than 100 recordings. He has appeared internationally at the Stone, CBGB’s, The Jazz Gallery, the Guelph, Vancouver, Halifax, and Toronto Jazz Festivals, FIMAV (Victoriaville), Festival of New Trumpet (NYC), Earshot (Seattle), Suoni Per Il Popolo, and the Off Festival de Jazz (Montréal).

https://www.ellwoodepps.ca/togetherness

https://ellwoodepps.bandcamp.com/album/togetherness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA9uJ45KqUg