David Torn

David Torn is a self-described "textural guitarist" as well as a producer, film composer, recording artist, and sideman. He's well-known for an innovative playing style that employs a self-developed digital looping system. His urgent, atmospheric, effects-drenched sound blurs the lines between rock, jazz, and avant music. A New York native, Torn was a member of the Everyman Band, whose two '80s recordings on ECM are foundational documents in his transition from jazz fusion to avant and abstract jazz-rock. On 1987's Cloud About Mercury (ECM), he led a band that included Bill Br...