| For fans of deep funk, afrobeat, and jazz, "Rhythm and Poetry" featuring the Benevento/Russo Duo, will keep your hips moving while Brian Mitchell, composer and arranger, takes the listeners head into a diffrent space.
"Rhythm and Poetry", featuring the Benevento/Russo Duo, is the debut record for NYC based composer Brian Mitchell. On this record, Mike Dillon (KDTU, Critters Buggin', Hairy Apes BMX) rounds out the quartet with all orginal songs written, arranged, and produced by Brian.
Grant Green, The JB's, King Tubby, Sun Ra, and Miles Davis, can all be heard as influences on this record. Brian, taking a nod from the aforementioned, creates music all his own.
Guitarist Brian Mitchell, after opening for John Scofield on the Uberjam tour, came to New York and has since shared the stage with Me'Shell Ndegéocello. members of Antibalas, Butch Morris, members of the Brazilian Girls, and Kenny Wollesen (drummer for Bill Frisell, Tom Waits, Norah Jones, John Zorn),
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