Jazz Articles about Thom Gossage

Roddy Ellias Trio: Monday's Dream

by John Kelman
April 14, 2014

Since returning home to Ottawa after spending much of his adult life as an associate music professor at Concordia University in Montréal, Roddy Ellias may have retired but he's far from slowing down. Retirement's just a word, but for this extraordinary guitarist it's clearly been a liberating one; based on Monday's Dream, his first recording since returning to Ottawa, it's suiting him very, very well, indeed. While he still plays a hollow body electric guitar on occasion, Ellias' ...

Thom Gossage Other Voices: In Other Words

by Matt Marshall
October 28, 2011

According to drummer Thom Gossage, the tracks on this, the fifth release by his Other Voices ensemble, are launched from a single figure--anything from a simple melodic line, to fully composed pieces of music, rhythm scores, electronic soundscapes, chants and poems--that are subsequently abstracted through an assemblage process. The idea came to him after viewing a painting by choreographer Isabelle Van Grimde, and seeing the process she followed to achieve abstraction of a visual figure. The group ...

Thom Gossage Other Voices: The Now Beyond

by Jerry D'Souza
January 9, 2004

The music on this record was written by Thom Gossage after the band’s tour in 2002 and reflects the experiences during that period as well as the individual and collective strengths of the group. Also included is music outside the pale of those times.

Gossage keeps his music at a slow simmer when it is not sombre. This gives it a sameness of approach when a change of moods and discernible tempo would have resulted in a balanced ...