Fractal Quintet is fronted by guitarist Libby Roach. Along with a rotating roster of local professional musicians and sit-in soloists, Roach presides over a group that takes classic jazz influences (Coltrane, Tyner, Shorter) along with a love of 70's fusion (ala Davis, Airto, Corea) and adds an awareness of conceptually jazz-rooted musics (Avante-Garde/Experimental, Downtempo, Jungle, Drum'n'Bass, etc.). Roach, the principle songwriter and bandleader, is a fourth year music student at P.S.U. and has played in various PDX jazz bands for the past five years. Fractal Quintet's current line-up is rounded out by bassist Damian Erskine (Tony Furtado), drummer Kipp Crawford (Celilo), keyboardist Matt Weiers, and multi-instrumental soloist Paul Evans (Taarka). Though currently a five-piece band, Fractal Quintet's instrumentation includes soprano sax, melodica, all manner of Latin percussion, electric piano, and classic synth tones along with Roach's guitar and the solid and progressive rhythm section provided by Crawford and Erskine. The result is music with a forward-thinking structure, well rooted in the foundations of traditional Jazz music, and presented in the sonic vernacular and instrumentation of classic 70s fusion. It's jazz, man.