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Tomchess
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Tomchess is a New York City based Multi-instrumentalist/Improviser/Composer making music professionally for 35 years. He plays Reeds, Western Flute, Arabic/Turkish Ney flute, Oud, and Guitar. He also has a history of using electronics /sampling/live-sampling/loops/fx. Having deeply studied the Near Eastern, and North African traditions his syncretic sound encompasses the tonal palette, rhythms, and forms of these traditional musics as well as focusing on the transcendent unity of all human culture while never losing sight of his American roots and the importance and freedom of improvisation
Galaxy 13
Album: Tomchess-Companions
By Tomchess
Label: Footjumbo Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 05:49
Tomchess-Companions
By Tomchess
Label: Footjumbo Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Sullivan Street
Wisdom Away From Violence
Galaxy 13
Premonition
Companions
Patience
Of You And Me
On The Life of a Candle
Sun Pie
Mind Forms And Kind Life
Momentarily Endless
By Tomchess
Label: Foot Jumbo Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Arc; Stepping Out Of Circles; Zizag teahouse; Hymn of Bridges; Wig
For A Saint; Momentarily Endless; Oud Taksim: Coverage; Coverage; The
Giver And The Beautiful Gift.
Tom Chess: Momentarily Endless
by Glenn Astarita
Oud performer Tom Chess and associates go for the gusto on this sterling quartet date recorded at different venues in New York. With asymmetrical doses of free-form and conventional improvisational tactics shadowing attractive themes and hooks, the band tethers jazz with Middle Eastern and North African motifs, immersed within a sparkling soundstage. Chess leads the group ...
In The Beautiful Future
By Tomchess
Label: Foot Jumbo Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Disc One - Oud Taksim On - 19 Times In 17 Years; 19 Times In 17 Years; Two Paths; A Poem Change; La
Fumbo; In The Beautiful Future. Disc 2 - Aletheia; Levitation Grain; Oud Taksim On - Fish And Paper Messages;
Fish And Paper Messages; Oud Taksim On - The Rose Apple Tree; The Rose Apple Tree; Peace Warriors (O
Coleman).
Tomchess & the Lovedogs: In The Beautiful Future
by Glenn Astarita
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Tom Chess is an extraordinary musician who has traveled the world to study and perform with the best and brightest. He's also an accomplished jazz guitarist, having spent quality time with tenor saxophonists like Dewey Redman and Pharaoh Sanders. Residing in New York City, this band in particular was formed in 1999 for ...