Jazz Articles about Ray Paczkowski

About Ray Paczkowski

Album Review

Something of a holding pattern until the next full-length album in 2016, Soule Monde's Smashed World EP also works as a tease, but in the best possible way. Like the duo's live shows, this thirty minutes of intricately interwoven melody and rhythm can't help but whet the musiclover's appetite for more. Booming and singing from the very start on “Influence," the cerebral impact of the music is as deep and provocative as its visceral wallop, that is, keyboardist ...

Album Review

Soule Monde: Soule Monde

Read "Soule Monde" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
November 23, 2012

Soule Monde was borne from a musical partnership between percussionist Russ Lawton and keyboardist Pay Paczkowski, that blossomed as both were co-members of Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio's solo band. Staples of the Burlington, Vermont music scene, both Lawton and Paczkowski kept busy with their various individual projects while playing live improv shows as a duo for months prior to formalizing their original pieces into compositions that make up this, their first recorded collaboration. In both conception and execution, ...