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Having demonstrated her skills in solo and quartet settings, Mexican-American vibraphonist/marimba player Patricia Brennan ups her game further by adding a horn section and electronics to her highly rhythmic program. The voltage boost is used sparingly, mostly to extend the brassiness of Adam O’Farrill’s trumpet leads and add oscillating whizzes to the mallet instruments, However layering trumpet and saxophonists Jon Irabagon and Mark Shim reed riffs broaden the foundation of Brennan’s compositions further defined by… Read More