Jazz Articles about Polyorchard

Polyorchard: Red October

by Daniel Barbiero
April 11, 2018

Polyorchard is a free improvisational group with a flexible membership; the one constant is Raleigh, North Carolina double bassist David Menestres. The group has taken the diverse forms of string trio, trio of strings and keyboard and mixed group of brass, reeds and strings. Earlier this month (I write at the end of March) they played the DC area alternative space Rhizome in a trio configuration of Menestres, keyboardist Jill Christensen and violist Dan Ruccia; in Red October, the group ...