Artist description We're a confederation of folks with backgrounds in jazz, world, classical and experimental music committed to creating new music through improvisation.

Music Style Improvisational with jazz, world and experimental music influences.

Musical Influences Shakti, Oregon, Frissell, Reinhardt, Piazzolla, Reich, Zappa, Davis, Mingus, Hedges, Riley, Shankar

Similar Artists Bill Frisell, Oregon, Pat Metheny, Steve Tibbetts, Astor Piazzolla

Artist History Founded in 1999, we released our first CD, "Guitarrasalto" in early 2000. This is the first of three improvisational CDs we plan to issue for general release. We're working on the second one...

Group Members Ranji Kumar - accordionJon Madof - guitarsScott Schaffer - guitars, bass, mandolinMichael Taylor - bassJon Thompson - saxophones, flute, melodicaBart Miltenberger - trumpetWoz - electronicsPaul Downie - doumbek and percussionDennis Hertzog - violin and violaHugh Wattles - alto saxophone

Instruments accoustic and electric guitars, bass, accordion, saxophones, flute, mandolin, melodica, trumpet, violin, doumbek, synthesizers

Albums Guitarrasalto (2000)

Press Reviews "innovative instrumental textures, limber yet disciplined playing, and spirited musical ideas.  This is intelligent, adventurous music. And it has heart, too."(Freelance Music Review)"Edge City Collective is a remarkable confederacy of quiet grace, swinging jazz and musical invention.  They are unclassifiable-and happily so."(Philadelphia Weekly)"The players are all fine musicians, with chops a-plenty and the wherewithall to apply them."(The Improvisor)"This guitar/accordion/saxophone/bass-infested delicacy is a feast for the ear where intricate tangos mix freely with avant-garde fluidity and jazzy intaglios to create a magnificent tableaux of fresh verve and exuberant vitality." (FAO Casa Gazette)"The variety of sounds they get with acoustic guitars, basses, sax, flute, melodica, accordion and a touch of mandolin is astounding... creating a palette of emotional soundscapes that is at once soothing and unsettling, urban with an occasional touch of country roots.  All instrumental, heady, and full of feeling, this is a fascinating collection." (PauseRecord)

Location Philadelphia, PA - USA

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