The Big Room

Description

With THE BIG ROOM, drummer Joe Farnsworth brings together an intergenerational sextet in the service of transcendent creativity and imagination. This album highlights a remarkable cast of musician-composers, blending contemporary masters and rising stars: trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, saxophonist Sarah Hanahan, vibraphonist Joel Ross, pianist Emmet Cohen, and bassist Yasushi Nakamura. The title refers to a concept Farnsworth often heard mentioned by legendary masters he had the privilege of knowing and following — figures like Max Roach, Jackie McLean, or Ron Carter. “The Big Room,” Farnsworth explains, is not a physical place, but a spiritual dimension, a vast and open space that only the most accomplished artists can reach. It is there that all the rules, discipline, and language the musician has spent a lifetime learning fade away, giving way to pure and transcendent creation.