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The Resonance Ensemble

Rudy Royston, Wojciech Jachna and More

by Bob Osborne
December 13, 2018

This week the featured album is the new release by Rudy Royston, and we focus on Polish trumpet maestro Wojciech Jachna. In between a varied selection of different genres from the wide World of Jazz. Playlist Rudy Royston “Soul Train" from Flatbed Buggy (Greenleaf) 00:00 Valerio Pontrandolfo & Harold Mabern Trio “Twenty" from Are ...

Resonance Jazz Ensemble Premieres Fearless Force Concert At SFJAZZ Center

September 19, 2014

Resonance Jazz Ensemble, the Bay Area’s one-of-a-kind jazz octet premieres new works pushing the jazz envelope in their Fearless Force concert at the SF Jazz Center’s Robert A. Miner Auditorium, 201 Franklin Street, San Francisco on Saturday, October 18th at 8 pm. The band will introduce new compositions by band members with arrangements of jazz and ...

Kafka in Flight

By The Resonance Ensemble

Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: The Pier (for Yutaka Takanashi); Rope (for Don Ellis); Coal Marker (for Chris Marker).

The Resonance Ensemble: Kafka In Flight

by John Sharpe
August 25, 2011

It may subvert expectations to note that the “resonance" in this group's name is with the big bands of the 1940s and '50s, rather than any forbidding improv austerity. Kafka In Flight, the third release by Chicago reedman/composer Ken Vandermark's multinational aggregation, follows the Live In Lviv (Not Two, 2008) LP and eponymous ten-CD set (Not ...

The Resonance Ensemble: Kafka in Flight

by Mark Corroto
May 3, 2011

Until the formation of The Resonance Ensemble in 2007, Ken Vandermark's writing for large ensembles had been limited to his electro-acoustic Territory Band and Peter Brötzmann's sprawling free jazz Chicago Tentet. With this 10-man group, he succeeds in what he works so very hard at with the Vandermark 5. Like V5, his working band, he is ...