Harrington/Jaffe/Shiroishi is an experimental music trio from Los Angeles. The group works at a cross section of avant-garde, ambient, electronic, post-hardcore, and free jazz, but is not really any of those things. The group embraces a fully improvised ethos, with each performance and recording balancing intention with malleability to render specific moments in time and space into a growing body of spontaneous musical conversation.
Following 2024’s debut Speak, Moment – which captured the trio’s very first meeting – Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, and Patrick Shiroishi reunite for another multidimensional record on Making Colors, pairing fragile melodic movements with maximalist fervor.
Eli Winter is a composer, self-taught guitarist, essayist, and Houston native. His music synthesizes aspects of folk, rock, jazz, and devotional music, maintaining a waggish disregard for genre constraints emblematic of Chicago, his adopted hometown. His new album, A Trick of the Light, is an elegantly crafted and vibrant collection that finds the bandleader at the height of his powers: the dazzlingly intense arrangement of Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell’s “Arabian Nightingale” that opens the album, Winter’s muscular, dreamy originals, and his daring arrangement of Carla Bley’s “Ida Lupino.” His trio features Chicago improvisers Sam Wagster of Fruit Bats (pedal steel guitar) and Tyler Damon of Circuit des Yeux (drums), with performances at prestigious music festivals like Primavera Sound and Big Ears, and collaborations with a wide range of artists live and on record, including Danny Brown, Quadeca, Yasmin Williams, jaimie branch, Caroline Rose and Ryley Walker.
