Gypsy Jazz Menagerie

Aaron Walker Quartet is an international ensemble of wildly creative and enthusiastic musicians. While the quartet continuously tried to put itself in a box no hexadodocticpolydactyloctagon box was ever found that could fit. Simply put the Aaron Walker quartet is on the cutting edge of the new era of gypsy jazz groups. Swing unconfined, bossas smoother than German buttercream, wildly romantic and over the top tangos, top 40's reimagined in a swing style, and off the wall originals that make your senses explode.

No bio could contain the stories of the amazing musicians that perform regularly with the group or as guests. They include the most world renown musicians available; both current and future legends in the gypsy jazz genre, but really the music speaks for itself. You can look up individually the players, or, you can listen to the music again.

We are not a loud group, we are an acoustic listening group. We have a very specific tech rider that instructs the sound engineer how best to reinforce our instruments. For our quartet only four to six channels are needed. We use in sound-hole acoustic microphones that may be additionally reinforced with a condenser placed at the 12th fret. This gives us the cleanest most beautiful sound, but it also limits the amount of amplification we can achieve before feedback becomes uncontrollable when compared to a rock band with electric instruments. No more than 2 monitors are needed, and no subs are needed.