Chord Four - Bigger Smaller Nows (2020)

Chord Four is an award-winning California Avant-Garde ensemble of improvisers and composers playing original music.
Conceived in 2008, this chord-less Los Angeles-based ensemble has built a large repertoire and a strong group sound focused around intricate rhythms and harmonies.

Heavily influenced by jazz, as well as the traditional music of Ghana, Indonesia, India and the Balkans, their music is difficult to place into a specific genre. This, along with their unique variable instrumentation makes for a dependably intriguing collection of sounds and timbres. Chord Four won first place in the first international 2017 CONAD Jazz Contest and has performed at the Umbria Jazz and Umbria Winter Jazz Festivals as well as many jazz venues throughout the Western United States. The members of the ensemble are, in score order: Andrew Conrad on tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, and melodica, Brandon Sherman on trumpet, flugelhorn, and melodica, Emilio Terranova on double bass, and Colin Woodford on drums, cymbals, and melodica.