Fusion Echoes & Fringes
by Michael Limnios Vaylor Trucks is a multi-instrumentalist
and composer with a taste for complicated music. Non-professionally, a maker, skeptic, blogger, and podcaster. He is well know as member of Bonobos Convergence and The Yeti Trio. The Atlanta/Athens, GA based Bonobos Conver- gence creates an evolu- tion of sound, with roots in the fertile ground between jazz, funk, and pure jam. This immensely tal- ented trio evokes the sound of a full band with their powerfully in- fectious grooves: a unique sound that com- pels their audience to dance all night. Both or- ganic and psychedelic, the interchange of en- ergy produced by them will move both your mind and your behind. Joined by Todd Smallie on occasion this
Vaylor Trucks FATHER & SON: Vaylor & Butch.
guitar, bass & vocals. Vaylor is son of drum- mer Butch Trucks of the Allman Brothers Band and the blonde child on front album cover of the Brothers’ Brothers & Sisters (Capricorn 1973) Vaylor Trucks brings his musical genetics to the stage, although with a style that is all his own. Incredible leads, soar- ing solos and great rhythm guitar - all while sharing the bass notes with Pete Oren- stein and Frank Regis- trato. The Yeti Trio was born in 1999 when drummer Eric Sanders and multi-instrumen- talist Brooks Smith were introduced to gui- tarist Vaylor Trucks. From 1999 to 2002 The Yeti Trio played some of the most ener- getic fusion in the
band is tons of fun. They perform a wide range of fusion, pop, rock and jazz. Great melodies and catchy hooks provide the lis- tener with a mental landscape to explore their own musical whims. Every show brings some- thing different and exciting. The band are: Pete Orenstein on keys & vocals, Frank Regis- trato on drums & vocals and Vaylor Trucks on
country. Originally, everything that The Yeti Trio played was improvised. One of the trio would play some idea - frightening or silly or quiet or difficult - and the others would join in, adding their own ideas.
How would you describe your sound? What characterizes your music philos- ophy? It’s hard for me to answer this question with- out naming the musicians that have inspired me – people like John McLaughlin, Sonny
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