
In the small hours of the morning on a headlong collision into history ambition & magic a trumpeter wails in the apocalypse " You are making it happen All the deaths All the destruction" Tom is a solid but not great musician While his bandmates are happy to play gigs for themselves at their own clubs drinking free beer & shooting the breeze Tom aches for the next level whatever that is & as musicians are wont to do in magical fables he meets a mysterious stranger with a seemingly simple offer take a battered old trumpet for free & just enjoy it no exchanges & no strings Whenever Tom plays it the extraordinary music blows away his growing throngs of fans & deadly mishaps start to follow Tom may not have sold his soul for the music of the heavens but he seems to have bargained away something much more serious From the critically acclaimed jazz musician Dave Chisholm Instrumental is a high-spirited suspenseful formally inventive visually musical graphic novel an epic yet intimate riff on our longing search for what&s next Dave Chisholm is a trumpet player songwriter composer bandleader educator & visual artist currently residing in Rochester NY The breadth of Chisholm&s artistic output is exemplified in a long string of widely varied projects including the big-band jazz of his debut album Radioactive (2010) the post-rock-meets-jazz-improvisation soundscapes on Calligraphy (2011) his soulful indie-rock singer-songwriter project Talking Under Water the blistering straight-ahead jazz performed by Utah group John Henry & the upstart jazz big bands Salt Lake Alternative Jazz Orchestra & Colossus As a trumpet player Dave has garnered international acclaim In 2012 he performed six nights at the Umbria Jazz Festival as part of Ryan Truesdell&s " Gil Evans Centennial" project In 2009 he was one of two recipients of the Downbeat Student Music Award for outstanding collegiate soloist He has also received numerous accolades & awards at both the Reno Jazz Festival & the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Festival Dave wrote & illustrated his first graphic novel LET&S GO TO UTAH! in 2009 followed by short comics in MYSPACE DARK HORSE PRESENTS & Locust Moon&s Eisner Award-winning anthology DREAM ANOTHER DREAM He currently teaches at State University of New York at Brockport & at the Hochstein School of Music & Dance