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Brian Felix has spent decades building a musical life that moves between continents, traditions, and textures — from the Fillmore to Aberdeen, from jazz-rock to the classroom where he teaches improvisation and the Beatles with equal seriousness. Now rooted in Asheville, he brings the organ trio format somewhere new. The Brian Felix Organ Trio draws from gospel weight, samba motion, surf shimmer, reggae drift, and ambient space, holding it all together through something harder to name than genre: a shared listening that Tim Fischer and Evan Martin have made second nature. Their 2025 record Level Up landed an All About Jazz song of the day and earned praise for being genuinely eclectic without being scattered. That same quality shows up live, where the music has room to shift and surprise.

Jeff Sipe has long understood that drums are portals, a knowing shaped by years alongside Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit into something that moves between precision and the untranslatable. Quinn Sternberg's bass holds the gravitational field steady while melody and time spiral outward. Jay Sanders builds sonic architecture from effects and intention, a Nashville-trained player who chose instead to become a cosmologist, mapping the territories between silence and sound. Together as the Blingus Trio, they converge at Little Jumbo not to impose a vision but to dissolve the conditions that make imposition possible.