Sometimes only bandleader/composer Graham Reynolds, and sometimes a 40 piece orchestra, the The Golden Arm Trio is anything but predictable.

The groups first CD, the self-named The Golden Arm Trio, was a tight and creative jazz album with cleverly written, original compositions that reinvented the genre. Golden Arm Trio is involved in dance, theatre, puppetry, performance art, experimental films, and new scores to silent films, which are performed live at the Alamo Draft House. Graham has worked with choreographers Andrea Ariel, Ellen Bartel, Ashley Overton, and others. Theatre projects have included productions by Salvage Vanguard Theatre, the Rude Mechanicals, Vortex Repertory Theatre.

Golden Arm Trio's second CD, Why the Sea is Salt, is a large ensemble classical work. Why the Sea is Salt, shows Graham's development as a composer, and features the Tosca String Quartet.

Reynolds may be at the podium, at the piano, saxaphone or drums. Beyond that, the cast is revolving. "Reynolds is often pigeonholed as a jazz artist merely for lack of a more appropriate term, but his classical compositions for the Tosca String Quartet belie such a designation once and for all," according to the Austin Chronicle.

There is more information at Golden Arm Trio's web site.