“Being in the big cities like Tokyo and New York means you spend a lot of time on the subway. The reason behind the title The G Train was that when I was in New York I was going to Brooklyn to check out a lot of the more underground gigs. The best way for me to get to Brooklyn was to connect to the G Train – a suburban line from Queens to Brooklyn. It was on some of those colourful late night jazz journeys on the G Train that I decided to follow this train theme with the album. You get to sit and think a lot when you are on the train – something not so common when I am in Perth – and I think that’s when the ideas were really hatching for me. It was the sounds, the smells, the interesting characters – freaks – and the whole hustle and bustle of New York.”
The Graham Wood Quintet was interviewed by X-Press Magazine. To view more about The Graham Wood Quintet, visit the X-Press Magazine Website to get more of an insight to this world of music.
