V16
V16's first record came out in 2003 (The V16 Project, SA1544-2) with Anthony Cox on bass - though he never toured with the band - and with the current guitar team, the justly acclaimed David Tronzo and the equally talented Christian Kogel, a former student of Jerry's in Berlin and member of his previous two-guitar band UFB. Like those bands, V16 ambles through the jazz cloakroom without hanging its hat. This time round it's even less classifiable, although Jerry says that it "rocks out" but also that it represents "jazz as it can be in the 21st century....The material is plasma-like, always in flux and development. We all have these vast musical lives that we've led and that's what we bring with us....The band offers such a rich sound palette, I think of everybody as sound artists rather than musicians."
