Performances
"Kiermyer Supercharges Spiritual Modality"
Herb Boyd in Down Beat magazine"Stepping into Sweet Basil's from the humid streets of New York City, you are greeted by a wave of sound so intense that it almost flattens you against the wall. The horns raging in front of the group belong to alto saxophonist Eric Person and tenor man Joe Lovano, pushed relentlessly by a rhythm section anchored by drummer Franklin Kiermyer.
"My first thought: Trane and Elvin. It's their sort of supercharged modal expressionism. Nice shards of melody, like protons bouncing around in atomic nuclei, give the energetic music an endless circularity. Oddly, amid the chaos there is an alluring spirituality, an ironic peaceful drone so integral to devotional music."
Recent performances by the Franklin Kiermyer quartet include an appearance at Lincoln Center for the CMJ MusicFest; A Performance at the New York Jazz Festival; a Canadian tour with concerts in Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City and Edmonton; a tour of California including dates at Yoshi's and the Jazz Bakery as well as concerts in the Knitting Factories' main space.