Glenn Ferris

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Tall among the greats, the reputation of Glenn Ferris is alredy established, considered as “One of the most colorful voices of the contemporary trombone“. The Press unanimous has reaffirmed: “If his american carrer has made him an instrumentalis and soloist of inernational dimension from his work with the Don Ellis Big Band, the Mothers of Invention and Grand Wazoo Orchestra of Frank Zappa, Billy Cobham, Stevie Wonder, Philly Jo Jones ...etc. Twenty one years after leaving the USA, to live in France, his european career in concerts and recordings with among others: Martial Solal, Archie Shepp, Louis Sclavis, Henri Texier, Palatino, Bex-Ferris-Goubert, the Glenn Ferris Trio and the “Chrominance” Trio, has definitively put him at the top with the greats¨“...like Zappa, Ferris’s music bubbles with serious fun. Like Erik Satie, Ferris delivers his aphoristic erudition with virtuosity and a Dadaistic wink...“ Chuck Berg JAZZTIMES“... Glenn Ferris, trombonist on the way to re-invent the instrument with at the heart, the memory of Duke Ellington and with the lips, the breath of Ben Webster...” Michel Contat TELERAMA