Colin Stranahan Quintet

Colin Stranahan Quintet: Dreams Untold

by Michael P. Gladstone
March 19, 2004

Powerhouse drummer Colin Stranahan is a seventeen-year-old student at the Denver School of the Arts. Given an early jazz education from family, he has already made a vivid impression as a composer and bandleader and has received attention from jazz notables, including trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, who wrote the liner notes. If I'm not mistaken, Tony Williams started out with Miles Davis at the same age.

The only tune not composed by Stranahan, John Coltrane's hard bop piece “26-2" ...