The Warner Concert Series: Invisible Guy
Date: 03/28/2025
Time: 08:00 pm-09:30 pm
Location: Brandi Recital Hall, Kenyon College, 105 College Drive, Gambier, OH 43022
Organizer: Kenyon College Department of Music
Cost: Free
Contact and more info:
landonj@kenyon.edu
https://www.kenyon.edu/events/the-warner-concert-series-invisible-guy/2025-03-28/
About the event:
Clarinetist Ben Goldberg, pianist/keyboardist Michael Coleman, and drummer Hamir Atwal came together in the innovative jazz and experimental music world of the San Francisco Bay Area. Eventually they found it necessary to form this trio, which for some reason may or may not be called Invisible Guy.
As a trio, Ben, Michael and Hamir are in strict pursuit of beautiful melody. Michael Coleman says: “Melody is the knife that cuts through to truth. Then there is the importance of breath, and personal expression.” Reviewing a 2014 concert, Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune said the group is “an unusually focused ensemble inventing a musical syntax for itself.”
Invisible Guy’s first record, “Knuckle Sandwich,” was released in 2017. In 2018 they composed the soundtrack for the film “A Sibling Mystery.” In the years since the pandemic, through an extended residency at Big Bar in Manhattan, they have developed a new, vocabulary-based approach to improvisation called Bone Head Music.