With Elephant, trumpeter and composer Adam O’Farrill reaches a new artistic peak in modern jazz. Leading an exceptional quartet of rising New York musicians — pianist Yvonne Rogers, bassist Walter Stinson, and drummer Russell Holzman — O’Farrill performs in top form throughout, drawing listeners into intricate rhythmic and harmonic frameworks shaped by remarkable breath control and unconventional phrasing.
The program unfolds imaginatively with “Curves and Convolutions”, whose initially mechanical yet fluid motion opens into a fearless, genre-blurring language that incorporates modern classical, new music, and avant-garde influences. O’Farrill delivers a striking solo over a septuple-meter passage before the piece resolves…

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