Jazz Articles about Paul Giallorenzo

RedGreenBlue: The End And The Beginning

by Chris May
August 7, 2022

RedGreenBlue sound like they have emerged from the same synapse-snapping dope bunker that La Monte Young and Jon Hassell exited with their Theatre Of Eternal Music in the 1970s, whacked out on opium, hashish and mescaline, dazed but not confused. RedGreenBlue may or may not indulge in the same psychotropic self-medication as their Lower East Side ancestors, but their strange and beautiful debut album, The End And The Beginning, suggests they do, and that is what counts. ...

Paul Giallorenzo's Git Go: Force Majeure

by Vincenzo Roggero
January 9, 2015

Pur essendo assai attivo sulla scena di Chicago non solo come pianista e compositore per teatro, danza, cinema ma anche come promotore culturale e creatore di eventi, Paul Giallorenzo è figura poco nota al di fuori dei patri confini. Pianista che fonde in uno stile originale la lezione di Thelonious Monk con quella di Cecil Taylor, le introspezioni di Paul Bley con l'esuberanza di Alex von Schlippenbach, Giallorenzo si rivela particolarmente interessante anche come compositore ed il quintetto denominato GitGo ...

Paul Giallorenzo's Git Go: Force Majeure

by Hrayr Attarian
September 3, 2014

Pianist Paul Giallorenzo's Force Majeure, his second album with his ensemble GitGo, covers a wide variety of motifs but maintains a consistently stimulating, darkly hued ambience. This and Giallorenzo's unique style and modal harmonies give the disc its cohesive character. The music ranges from the free flowing, five-way conversation on “A Tone" to the undulating, reggae influenced “Roscoe Far I." On the former the members of the quintet create their simultaneous monologues out of sparse notes, honks, thrums ...

Paul Giallorenzo Trio: 3

by Mark Corroto
April 17, 2013

The Paul Giallorenzo Trio with Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Tim Daisy recorded this Chicago session in 2007. Since then, individual members have joined other bands and associations, but this disc documents a short lived yet musically significant project.Giallorenzo has previously released the quintet sessionGet In To Go Out (482 Music, 2009) and he also plays in electric/acoustic improvised settings in Chicago.Employing the standard piano trio format, Giallorenzo's compositions bounce between composed melodies and ...

Paul Giallorenzo's Gitgo: Emergent

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 4, 2013

Il pianista newyorchese (ma di base a Chicago) Paul Giallorenzo si ispira per questo Emergent alle incisioni degli anni '60 di e con Mal Waldron, Cecil Taylor, Lowell Davidson. Il risultato è un disco estremamente intrigante, con una ritmica swingante ed il batterista Marc Riordan sugli scudi grazie ad un suono che sembra uscito proprio dai dischi di quel periodo. A completare la formazione, due veterani dei gruppi di Ken Vandermark: Jeb Bishop, che mostra di avere le radici anche ...

Paul Giallorenzo feat.: Ingebrigt Haker Flaten & Tim Daisy: PG 3

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 6, 2013

PG 3 è la testimonianza discografica dell'incontro avvenuto nel 2007 in quel di Chicago tra il poderoso bassista norvegese Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, che di quella città si può considerare cittadino onorario, il batterista Tim Daisy (Ken Vandermark e dintorni) ed il pianista Paul Giallorenzo. Nome non particolarmente conosciuto al di fuori dei patri confini Giallorenzo è collaboratore assai richiesto dagli esponenti più in vista della Windy City, vanta una frequentazione assidua della scena impro svizzera e, oltre che interessante pianista ...

Paul Giallorenzo: Get In To Go Out

by Troy Collins
October 13, 2009

The 15th album in 482 Records' Document Chicago Series, Get In To Go Out is the debut of pianist Paul Giallorenzo's quintet. One of the few free-leaning pianists working in the Windy City's vital new music scene, Giallorenzo's angular approach towards writing and improvising draws inspiration from the seminal Post-War innovations of such pianists as Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols, and early Cecil Taylor.

As co-founder and director of the creative non-profit Elastic Arts, Giallorenzo entertains a range of ...