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Artist
Typical Sisters
12+ albums
instrumentaljazz
about
Something like sisterly love sits between these three. Typical Sisters—the trio of Greg Uhlmann, Clark Sommers, and Matt Carroll—draw from a deep symbiosis that has been a lifetime in the making. Uhlmann, guitarist, recounts that he met drummer Matt Carroll when he was himself “still in a belly.” They have been friends since so it’s easy to imagine their creative partnership as the sort that cannot be untethered: their notions, impulses, and ways of communicating have developed as one. Carrol and Uhlmann’s head start, however, does not diminish the impact of the band’s third member, bassist Clark Sommers. Sommers appeared to Uhlmann at casual living room jams, already a seasoned musician when the guitarist was only fifteen. “I was an insecure teenager,” Uhlmann recollects, “I just remember how contagious Clark’s enthusiasm and positivity was. He really encouraged the approach that I wanted to take with music and I feel like it helped carry me through moments of doubt.” This history truly sets the trio apart. The group’s make-up isn’t owed to their networking within higher education or their navigation of the scene; it arose from deep, longstanding personal bonds. And this shows. The work that these three produce as Typical Sisters is incredibly heartfelt, innovative, and warm. Every melody, harmonic progression, and rhythmic feel within a composition is revered and built upon by all involved. That reverence makes space for a type of vulnerability that has earned them compar
