The Hibbard Wright Project

Friday, November 15th

Atlanta-based Grammy Award- winning saxophonist Mace Hibbard has been leading and recording with a formidable quintet for the past ten years while over that same period, Roswell, GA-based guitarist Trey Wright has led the 4-piece Athens/Atlanta-based Squat jazz band and is now leader of his own trio. What they both have in common is a creative rhythm section of bassist Marc Miller and drummer Marlon Patton. On the self-titled The Hibbard/Wright Project, both men leave their respective groups behind and join forces with the rhythm section they share, forming an all new quartet for this outing. In crafting this debut venture, the co-leaders contribute fresh new original compositions producing music that does not quite qualify as your standard straight ahead material but rather, music that can be best described as well-played tastefully improvised modern jazz. – Edward Blanco