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Three things bind this quartet together: friendship, a love of jazz and funk, and a shared sense of humor. In the 2010s, Bassist Jameson Stewart, organist Ben Blanchard, drummer Patrick Dalton, and guitarist Sam Crawford formed a close personal and musical rapport working together as sidemen in various styles. It wouldn’t be long until they tried playing their own instrumental music as a quartet. Today, QuadraPeg brings joy and vitality to their compositions and improvisations, always with a solid groove, camaraderie, and a touch of the absurd.
The Arcanauts is an original jazz band, drawing heavily from jazz and other African diaspora musical styles from the early 60’s – early 80’s. The band was founded by composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist David Andrew Moore.
In 2019, the band released their first EP, Initiation. Informed by symbolism and numerology from the Western Mystery Tradition, Initiation laid the tracks for the musical direction that The Arcanauts would take over the next couple years; original jazz heavily influenced by post bop, early fusion and the psychedelia informed jazz of the late 60’s.
On the band’s second release, The Hermit, the Arcanauts’ musical pallet expanded to include rhythms and forms more closely associated with funk, disco and the post-disco era. The EP featured several special guest including vocalist Robbie Pate, and legendary Motown session guitarist Wali Ali.