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Monocled Man

Sebastien Ammann’s Color Wheel, Kenny Warren Trio and More

by Maurice Hogue
April 29, 2020

I doubt you would get much argument that trumpet players Herb Robertson and Dave Ballou, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Tom Rainey are among the finest of their generation. When Robertson and Ballou decided to form a quartet back in 2005, those four musical minds coming together pretty much assured some magic would happen. In 2007 ...

We Drift Meridian

By Monocled Man

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2016
Track listing: Tromelin; We Drift Meridian; Marie-Betsy; Deception Island; Mount Cerberus; Fiction Afloat; Queen Tirza; Scott Moorman Adrift; Erebus; Mount Terror.

Monocled Man: We Drift Meridian

by Roger Farbey
September 15, 2016

Formed in 2011 and led by Loop Collective trumpeter Rory Simmons this is the intriguing follow-up to Monocled Man's 2014 debut album Southern Drawl. The album's title reflects Simmons's intention to tell the story, via his compositions, of real people who lived on remote islands across the globe. Tromelin Island was the site of the wreckage ...