Manzanita Quintet

A special evening-length performance by Manzanita Quintet as part of their Nationwide tour for their CD release “Osmosis”

Manzanita Quintet

Josh D. Reed – Trumpet

Peter Epstein – Saxophone

Adam Benjamin – Piano / Rhodes

Hans Halt – Bass

Andy Heglund – Drums

Individually, the members of the Manzanita Quintet have created astounding music in their associations with artists such as Kneebody, Dave Douglas, Ralph Alessi, Jerry Granelli, Art Lande, Beck, and so many more. These experiences inform their role as the inspired jazz faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno and in the music they create collectively. Along with Monk’s “Bemsha Swing” and Charlie Haden’s “Silence,” trumpeter Josh Reed, saxophonist Peter Epstein, pianist Adam Benjamin, bassist Hans Halt and drummer Andrew Heglund have crafted a set of modern, original compositions that alternately stretch and groove, roar and whisper, revealing the inventive, creative vitality they’ve brought to this stretch of the Sierra foothills. Andy Heglund is a native of the Twin Cities and had played and recorded and performed with Pete Whitman and many other outstanding Minnesota groups including ‘the illicit sextet’.