Connecting Many Scenes in Dallas: Stefan González

Son of Texas’ most experimental Jazz trumpeter, but with a history of playing in Metal and Punk units, drummer Stefan González tells the Dallas Observer’s Jonathan Patrick how he isn’t content to limit himself to any one scene. A drummer since the age of four, with lessons from, among others, Alvin Fielder, very early on González began playing other music, along with being part of the Jazz trio, Yells at Eels with his older brother Aaron González on bass and his father Dennis González on trumpet. Not only is he also part of other bands including a Jazz-Rock trio, a Free Jazz quintet and a Latin-Fusion, Hip-Hop band, that also includes bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, but his solo voice-and-percussion project, Orgullo Primitivo places him firmly within the city’s burgeoning Noise Music constituency.