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Banshees
By Scott DuBois
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Mid to the West; Bend; Canaria; Inverse; Mouse Song; Old Man on Platform; Apparition.
Scott Dubois: Banshees
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo album del chitarrista americano Scott Dubois segna un deciso incontro tra il free ed il bop. L'impostazione dei brani, le esposizioni dei temi con sax e chitarra che si muovono all'unisono, è infatti di natura tradizionale. A confondere le acque ci sono gli accenti spostati, la melodia un po' stiracchiata, ma insomma, la concezione è ...
Scott DuBois: Banshees
by Glenn Astarita
On his previous 2005 release, Tempest (Soul Note), guitarist Scott DuBois aligned with prominent saxophonists, David Liebman, Loren Stillman and Jason Rigby as front line foils. Here, the artist employs German multi-woodwind ace Gebhard Ullmann for a largely, high-impact progressive jazz gala that comes right at you via sinewy discourses and complexly concocted song-forms. ...
Scott Dubois: Banshees
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Scott Dubois thrives on mercuriality. The guitarist-composer writes and plays with a starkness and moodiness that suits him perfectly, as displayed on Banshees. The shifts of focus and varying tempos make the music as fluid and intriguing as a Dalì painting. Dubois shows off his Metheny-influenced licks on “Mid to the West” ...
Scott DuBois: Banshees
by Troy Collins
Guitarist Scott DuBois is a rising presence on the New York jazz scene, an impressive soloist and gifted writer whose abilities garnered the attention of legendary saxophonist David Liebman, who served as a sideman on DuBois' previous releases, Monsoon (Soul Note, 2002) and Tempest (Soul Note, 2007). Banshees is the Sunnyside debut of the guitarist's international ...
Scott Dubois: Banshees
by Budd Kopman
Comparisons are only as good as the knowledge of the compared, but they can be helpful. Guitarist Scott Dubois' efforts on Banshees invite comparison to Samo Salamon, in that his instrumental technique and, by extension, his music live in the world of the unexpected and the unpredictable. Just being that, however, would not ...