Gabriel Johnson

Gabriel Johnson (born 1980 in Santa Clara, California)^[1] is an American trumpeter whose music combines aspects of electronica and jazz.^[2]

Reception

Robert Christgau gave Fra_ctured an A− grade, writing that "[Johnson's] horn has crystallized more ace electronica experiments than any other traditional instrument," adding that "his sound and his backdrops are bigger and hotter than his predecessors'".^[3] David Luhrssen of the Shepherd Express wrote that the album "conjures switched-on '70s progressive rock along with percolating electro-funk and copy-and-paste Pro Tools jazz," and wrote that Johnson was "obviously in the school" of Miles Davis.^[4] Andrew Frey in reviewing the album for Maximum Ink wrote of Johnson: "Born on the whims and whimsy of quirky electronica, this phenom trumpeter has found liberating fields of instrumental bliss through jubilant Pro Tools antics and his own 'fractured jazz' notions."^[5] Tom Hull of The Village Voice described the album as "Bold swathes of soundtrack electronica, burnished with bolts of trumpet."^[6]

Discography

• Fra_ctured (Electrofone, 2010)
• Introducing Gabriel Johnson (Sunset Horn, 2012)
• Alone Together (Sunset Horn, 2014)
• Sketches Volume 1 (Sunset Horn, 2016)
• Sketches Volume 2 (Sunset Horn, 2016)
• Sketches Volume 3 (Sunset Horn, 2016)
• Sketches Volume 4 (Sunset Horn, 2016)
• Winter Beats (Sunset Horn, 2022)
• Sunset 08 (Sunset Horn, 2022)
• Silent One (Sunset Horn, 2022)
• Quarantine Moonshine (Sunset Horn, 2022)
• Monterey Mysterey (Sunset Horn, 2022)
• Blur (Sunset Horn, 2022)
• Night Music Volume 1 (Sunset Horn, 2022)
• Film Music Volume 1 (Sunset Horn, 2022)
• Mulholland (Sunset Horn, 2022)
• Sunday Sessions-Volume 1 (Sunset Horn, 2022)
• Sunday Sessions-Volume 2 (Sunset Horn, 2022)
• Sunday Sessions-Volume 3 (Sunset Horn, 2022)