Results for "Jim Ryan"

Jim Ryan

Frank Swings

By Frank R Lamphere

Label: Late Nite Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: I Never Forgot Chicago Is For Me Be Happy That's How Our Story Ends I Like YOur Smell

Forward Energy: The Awakening

by Glenn Astarita
March 3, 2012

One never knows whether reed men Jim Ryan and Rent Romus will take matters to the next level or slam conventional jazz applications through the meat-grinder. Respectively, the artists are known for skirting the outside through the mouthpiece of various ensemble configurations, straddling the avant-garde, and an array of mechanisms that often defy categorization.

The Concept

By Jim Ryan

Label: Cadence Jazz Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Oaktown Sunrise 2. The Concept 3. Bird Watchers 4. How Are You? 5. Wisteria

Jim Ryan's Forward Energy: The Concept

by Nic Jones
October 17, 2003

For all the energy here the group is as in thrall to its own role models as the latest adherents to Miles Davis's pre-fusion quintet of the mid-to late 1960s. In revisiting what's essentially Albert Ayler's music – wasn't this once known amongst marketing types as “ecstatic jazz" for all of five minutes? – Jim Ryan's ...