Colin Cannon - McGolrick (2021)

Brooklyn-based composer/guitarist Colin Cannon's latest release McGolrick blends prog-rock, electronic music, and jazz into a dizzying suite, providing a portrait of a community under duress, under quarantine. Joining Cannon's regular trio are Hideaki Aomori (winds), Gabriel Cabezas (cello), CJ Camerieri (trumpet), and Rob Moose (violin/viola). This music was inspired by a day-to-day reality of writing, thinking and listening to the sounds of a small neighborhood in Brooklyn. It takes place on the far north side of the borough, not far from Long Island City, around a loud but lovely little area called McGolrick Park. A critically acclaimed composer who utilizes sound collage and electronics in an experimental blend of progressive rock, Colin Cannon is a modern jazz and contemporary classical composer and guitarist. Based in New York City, Cannon is a performer at the Blue Note and Rockwood Music Hall where he has shared bills with Ron Carte and Larry Carlton.