Mentored by the cream of Berklee’s jazz faculty and alumnus and MacArthur “genius” recipient Miguel Zenón, Roy Guzman form his quintet with five of the finest creative musicians at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, who together share the necessity to explore, learn, and present their view of jazz improvisation through composing and playing new music. The group’s approach has been compared to the guitar/horn bands co-led by Kurt Rosenwinkel and Mark Turner, and the knotty, searching sound of the Paul Motian/Bill Frisell/Joe Lovano trio.
