Results for "Andrew Schiller"

Andrew Schiller

Antti Lötjönen, Trevor Watts, & Adam Pieronczyk

by Maurice Hogue
March 6, 2023

Last episode's theme of interesting bass playing continues into this show with a pair from France (Hubert Dupont & Olivier Lété, Per Zanussi from Norway, Andrew Schiller, and Finland's Antti Lötjönen, but there's plenty of saxophone action from the likes England's Alex Ward & Trevor Watts, Rick Countryman with Interstellar Nao Trio from Mexico, Ivo Perelman, ...

The Adventurous Spirit of Red Piano Records

by Geno Thackara
February 14, 2020

There actually isn't a piano to be heard anywhere in this batch, but the season's crop illustrates the ethic of Red Piano Records in some interesting ways nonetheless. The small Brooklyn label specializes in music offbeat enough to require some adventurous ears, comfortably rooted under the jazz umbrella while usually stepping at least one foot somewhere ...

Andrew Schiller Quintet: Sonoran

by Jerome Wilson
February 14, 2020

The Sonoran Desert lies across the American Southwest and Northwestern Mexico. It is where bassist Andrew Schiller was born and it is the inspiration for the music on this CD he has written that draws from jazz, folk and classical sources. Schiller's quintet has a front line of tenor sax, alto sax and bass ...

Sonoran

By Andrew Schiller

Label: Red Piano Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Sonoran; Harquahaia; Gambelii; Western Theme #1; Wet Hair, Dry Air; Western Theme #2; Shade For Shelter; Western Theme #3; Thorny Flora.

Kevin Sun, Roadworks, Anansi Trio and More

by Maurice Hogue
December 4, 2019

Saxophonists are all over this episode. Australia's Julien Wilson provides two different settings to display his formidable talents, and so does New York's Kevin Sun. Swiss alto player Christoph Gallio made his One Man's Jazz debut with his trio, Day & Taxi, but this time he's back with a larger and freer ensemble, Roadworks. You'll hear ...

Jaimie Branch, Nick Dunston, Malleus Trio, Quartet Next and More

by Maurice Hogue
October 16, 2019

Trumpeter Jaimie Branch brings her 'tude and much-praised talent to her follow-up recording to Fly or Die in Fly Or Die II--Bird Dog of Paradise. Her music is even more incendiary as she turns her attention to the current state of political and social unrest in America. Also making debuts this week are the Malleus Trio ...

“Bass-ic" Strokes for Discerning Folks

by Maurice Hogue
October 2, 2019

The double bass is rather well-represented in this show. New recordings featuring some great bassists as leaders come from Miles Perkin, Benjamin Hedquist, and Andrew Schiller, while other recordings feature Mario Pavone, Ville Rauhala with Hot Heros, Brett Hirst with Phil Slater, Brad Jones with Tenor Triage, Matt Brewer with Steve Lehman, Giovanni Maier with Cene ...

Tied Together, Not to the Ground

By Andrew Schiller

Label: Red Piano Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Little Shoes; Go Get 'Em Tiger!; Tink Tink; One That Never Was; Gluckschmerz; CFBDSIR-2149; Head Down, Walk; Skegness Is So Bracing; Tied Together, Not to the Ground; Wander.

Andrew Schiller Quintet: Tied Together, Not to the Ground

by Geno Thackara
July 9, 2017

Andrew Schiller may be fairly young and only starting his recording career, but he's already learned some very good lessons. His debut as a leader demonstrates a level of compositional smarts that's impressive at any age, quietly building a series of coolly thoughtful quintet pieces, boasting an excellent ensemble and arranging each part in service of ...