Kenosha Kid

Named after an ambiguous figure in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Kenosha Kid was formed by creative jazz guitarist, composer, and bandleader Dan Nettles in his hometown of Athens, Georgia in 2004. The Berklee College of Music-educated Nettles started up the project after attending the Banff International Workshop in Jazz & Creative Music in the Canadian Rockies, where workshop director Dave Douglas -- the award-winning trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and educator -- encouraged the guitarist to take a non-idiomatic approach to jazz, working with like-minded collaborators...