The Brotherhood always grooving
Brandon Tarricone and his Brotherhood of Groove have come a long way in
a very short time. Organized just under a year ago by guitarist Tarricone
and drummer Dan Caro, who met in November 2000 on a jazz standards gig in
hometown New Orleans, the Brotherhood was formed sometime there after and
started playing clubs in March 2001.The Brotherhood currently features the
stellar front line of former Sun Ra/Kool & the Gang trumpet star Michael
Ray and saxophonist par excellence John Ellis, a UNO jazz program graduate
now based in New York City, also playing with the Charlie Hunter Quartet.
The Brotherhood of Groove has sharpened its musical focus and managed to
plumb greater musical depths than ever before. Propelled by Tarricone’s
guitar, acoustic bassist Alan Broome (spelled by electric bassist John Stonbley
on “Degrees of Separation” and “What Waz”) and Caro
on drums, the Brotherhood rolls and tumbles through an intriguing program
of Tarricone’s compositions, interpreted and elaborated upon by the
fluent solo work of Ray and Ellis also accompanyeed by veteran pianist,
Michael Pellera, on two distictivly special compostions (“Society Folks,”
and ”Integration”). ~ Brotherhood of Groove.com
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