Dan Nettles

Born and located in the choice and indie rock and roll hotbed of Athens, Georgia, guitarist, composer, and bandleader Dan Nettles couldn’t help but absorb a big supporting of anything-goes music spirit — in least from your rock and roll side from the equation — inside a hometown that spawned famous brands R.E.M., the B-52s, Widespread Stress, as well as the Drive-By Truckers. But instead than seek a location between the city’s rock and roll scenesters, Nettles was highly attracted to jazz like a innovative outlet, and remaining Athens to go after jazz research at Boston’s Berklee University of Music, incubator for a few of the very most noteworthy innovative jazz talent in the country, if not really the world. Time for Athens after four many years of research at Berklee, Nettles performed jazz gigs around city but, confined with what he thought to be the idiom’s strictures, he gravitated toward rock and roll despite his jazz intuition — until, that’s, he went to the Banff International Workshop in Jazz & Innovative Music saturated in the Canadian Rockies during 2004. There, workshop movie director Dave Douglas — the award-winning trumpeter, composer, bandleader, educator, and world-renowned jazz boundary-smasher — prompted Nettles to check out his very own muse back Athens, suggesting how the guitarist help create a picture in his hometown by composing for and using collaborators whom he understood shared his very own expansive sensibilities (a procedure for music-making with parallels, it appears, in Douglas’ very own contributions towards the so-called N.Con.C. downtown jazz picture circa the 1990s). Acquiring Douglas’ tips to center, Nettles came back to Athens and shaped Kenosha Child (called after an ambiguous physique in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow), a task where the guitarist and a revolving group of music artists not really hidebound by custom would perform and record his music, available to wherever the composer’s creativity might travel. Since it proved, Nettles’ compositions and Kenosha Kid’s numerous instrumental configurations would show especially well-suited for silent film ratings and a live theatre creation. The ensemble’s 1st album, Projector, found its way to 2005; a documenting of music made up as accompaniment to silent movies by Charlie Chaplin and Ladislaw Starewicz, the recording presented a sextet composed of Nettles on acoustic guitar became a member of by bassist Carl Lindberg, drummer Jeff Reilly, trombonist Dave Nelson, mandolinist Rob McMaken, and accordionist High Iannucci. Another silent film soundtrack, Steamboat Expenses Jr., adopted in 2008 like a Compact disc/DVD set offering the Buster Keaton silent film from the same name with music constructed by Nettles for octet and tentet. This time around, Nettles, Reilly, Nelson, Iannucci (on body organ furthermore to accordion), and McMaken had been joined up with by three music artists the guitarist fulfilled at Banff — Mexico Town trumpeter Jacob Wick, Berlin alto saxophonist Peter Truck Huffel, and Seattle tenor and baritone saxophonist Greg Sinibaldi — aswell as bassists Aryeh Kobinsky (acoustic) and Neal Fountain (electrical). Kenosha Kid’s third studio room record, 2009’s Fahrenheit, released digitally and in limited-edition vinyl fabric, contains Nettles compositions commissioned to get a Brunswick, Georgia stage creation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and performed with a sextet of Nettles, Kobinsky, Reilly, Wick, Sinibaldi, and baritone/metal guitarist Neal Fountain. Next, Kenosha Child returned towards the studio room — amidst concurrent live shows documented within an avalanche of digital produces on Nettles’ website — to record Inside Voices, which found its way to early 2015. The ensemble lineup upon this 4th studio room album presented a primary trio of Nettles on acoustic guitar and loops, bassist Robby Handley, and drummer Marlon Patton along with Wick, Vehicle Huffel, and Sinibaldi, three coming back collaborators whom Nettles warmly nicknamed “the Horns from Hell.” Nettles also announced that Outdoors Choices, a friend recording to Inside Voices, will be released in 2016.