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Kevin Frenette Trio / Carl Testa Trio on March 13 - New Haven, CT

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810 State Street
New Haven, CT 06511
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The Kevin Frenette Trio Kevin Frenette (guitar)
James Rohr (fender rhodes)
John McLellan (drums)

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The Carl Testa Trio

Carl Testa (string bass)
Mike McGinnis (clarinet)
Aaron Siegel (percussion)

Boston area guitarist Kevin Frenette has performed throughout the Northeast USA making music that is inspired by both avant-garde jazz and contemporary improvisation. He studied guitar, composition, and music theory at UMASS-Dartmouth where he received a BA in Theory/Composition. He has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Tatsuya Nakatani, Jack Wright, Joe Giardullo, Pandelis Karayorgis, Daniel Levin, Forbes Graham, Luther Gray, Harvey Sorgen and Dan DeChellis. In 2007, Fuller Street Music released Kevin's first date as a leader: CONNECTIONS. That album featured Frenette with Tatsuya Nakatani on percussion, Andy McWain on piano and Todd Keating on bass.

“Kevin Frenette's 'Connections' is a dazzling display of sympathetic interactions with truly spontaneous results. Frenette and company combine for a powerful force of open-minded creative energy." --- John Barron

Carl Testa is a composer, bassist, bass clarinetist, and electronicist who has been composing and performing creative music since 2000. He is best known as one of the members of multi-instrumentalist/composer Anthony Braxton's Sextet, Septet and 12+1tet. He is featured on the 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 box set on Firehouse 12 records, on 12+1tet (Victoriaville) 2007 on Victo Records, as well as the Quartet (GTM) 2006 box set on Important Records. Testa is a native of Chicago where he studied and performed with musicians Ernest Dawkins, Mwata Bowden, Aaron Getsug, Isaiah Spencer, David Boykins, Nicole Mitchell, Will Faber, Stephen Ptacek and others. He then moved to Connecticut in order to study with Anthony Braxton and Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University. There he studied and performed with Neely Bruce, Ron Kuivila, Aaron Siegel, Daniel Raimi, Andrew Dewar, Anne Rhodes, David Jensenius, Dave Ruder, and many others.

“I believe that Carl Testa is an example of what can happen when there is courage, dedication, and clear vision. My hope is to have many more opportunities playing music with this guy, and sharing information and learning together. Carl Testa is already a great musician, and the best is yet to come. This is a guy to watch."

Anthony Braxton in Liner Notes to Quartet (GTM) 2006

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