Mark Helias' Open Loose

Mark Helias' Open Loose: Verbs of Will

by Clifford Allen
October 3, 2003

If modern jazz has truly reached a historical synthesis of the sort that will keep it going indefinitely and show its “guts," then free-bop might just be that most promising vein. It’s not that free-bop is a particularly new animal; the net can be cast to both Ornette and Hamiet Bluiett, but it often shows more life and individuality than textbook recreations of classic Blue Note sides could offer and yet keeps its freedom in enough check to still be ...

Mark Helias' Open Loose Tonight, June 29, At Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: All About Jazz
June 29, 2006

MARK HELIAS'S OPEN LOOSE

Mark Helias, bass Nasheet Waits, drums Tony Malaby, saxophones

8:30 p.m. Cover $10

CORNELIA STREET CAFE 29 Cornelia Street NYC, New York 212-989-9319 www.corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St.

The trio's name “Open Loose" refers not only to its musical style, but to Mark ...
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