MATHEMATICIANS

The Mathematicians were a US Indiana based progressive jazz rock/fusion studio band formed in 1988 by drummer Kevin Kouts and guitarist Larry McCullough which released only two albums during the 90's. Bassist Eddy Humphrey describing the band's music said "It's hard to say what musical génre we ascribe to. It has been called heavy-metal jazz/rock, space jazz, art-rock. Whatever it is, it's just what we've come up with. We believe that music is a very mathematical exercise, hence our name. Everything about music - time, rhythm, pitch, phrasing, dynamics - it's all reducible to numbers. Einstein must have thought so too, for he once referred to the music of Mozart as the most mathematically pure music in existence. I would agree to that. Mathematicians began in 1988 as the brainchild of Larry McCullough, Kevin Kouts, and Bob Fields. The rest of us fell in line as we discovered how much read more...