Results for "Guy Klucevesk"

Guy Klucevesk

New and "Precarious" Sounds: Zeitgeist Meets Accordion

May 10, 2011

I think what appeals to me most about jazz, and more generally what is often dubbed “experimental music," is witnessing the act of creation on stage. That creative act might be as subtle as a minor alteration of a well-known melody such that it evokes a slightly different feeling; or it might be as dramatic as ...

Rahim Alhaj: Little Earth

by Chris May
September 14, 2010

With six albums under his belt since he arrived in the US in 2000--two of them, Friendship (Fast Horse, 2006) and When The Soul Is Settled (Smithsonian Folkways, 2007), Grammy nominees--Iraqi oudist Rahim Alhaj is settling into his new homeland with aplomb. Four of the discs have been virtuoso expositions of traditional Iraqi music. But on ...

Accordance

By Guy Klucevesk

Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Life, Liberty and the Prosciutto Happiness, Angel Blue, Information, Please, Social Securities, Birthdays, Telephones, The Gunks, Bar Talk, Starting Over, Mr. Glime-Glide, Mug Shots, Psychotria Nervosa, (With Coffee), The Girl With The Rose Hips, Decaffinata, Astor Place, Scarlatti Fever, Hegel

Guy Klucevesk and Alan Bern: Accordance

by Glenn Astarita
March 1, 2001

What a delightful album Accordance is! Here, classically trained accordionists Guy Klucevesk and Alan Bern go head to head for a series of inspiring duets, consisting of seventeen works that span Polka, modern jazz, Eastern European motifs and ethnocentric grooves. And while many modern jazz aficionados are familiar with Klucevesk’s active participation in trumpeter Dave Douglas’ ...