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by Glenn Astarita
Here's an album that was recorded in 2010 and released in 2015. Hence, It's better late than never, especially since this duo production by rising star experimental guitarist Terrence McManus and all-universe jazz session bassist and leader, John Hebert tease our imaginations via these nine contrasting works. The duo's creative improvisational sparks and acute call and response mechanisms tender deft expressionism from start to finish. They pose a challenging sequence of circumstances that spawn an abundance of mind-bending gambits.
read moreTerrence McManus - Gerry Hemingway: Below the Surface of
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sentiremo ancora parlare di Terrence McManus. E non soltanto per quel nome che pare preso in prestito da un romanzo di Roberto Bolaño o Thomas Pynchon. C'è la netta sensazione, ascoltando Below the Surface of, di essersi imbattuti in un improvvisatore che ha numeri e talento, idee in abbondanza e coraggio da vendere. Newyorkese di Brooklyn (finalmente un autoctono!), chitarrista e costruttore di chitarre, è dal 2007 che il nostro si esibisce regolarmente con il mai meno che immenso Gerry ...
read moreTerrence McManus / Mark Helias / Gerry Hemingway: Transcendental Numbers
by John Sharpe
Guitarist Terrence McManus helms a stellar trio on Transcendental Numbers, through six collective concoctions recorded in New York City's The Stone, straddling and blurring the line between textural improvisation and the more traditional sound of guitar and rhythm section. Brooklyn-born McManus is carving a niche for himself on the scene. Having worked with drummer/composer Tyshawn Sorey, and performed with fellow guitarist Bill Frisell and saxophonist John Zorn, McManus is currently a member of drummer Gerry Hemingway's quintet, and finds his ...
read moreTerrence McManus/- Gerry Hemingway: Below The Surface
by Glenn Astarita
Guitarist Terrence McManus conveys an extensive music vernacular, tinted with percussive attributes and perceptive interactions with famed drummer, bandleader and consummate improviser Gerry Hemingway during Below The Surface Of. The duo engages a pliant game plan, executed at various pulses, and a broad soundstage that invokes an entertaining outlook, combined with blooming adventurism. The duo kicks off the festivities with The Night Ocean." Here, Hemingway lays down a swaying, medium-tempo swing groove, underscored by his counterpart's subliminal lo-hum ...
read moreTerrence McManus: Thirty9Thirty8 & Live at the Clown Lounge
by Elliott Simon
Dave Ballou/Terrence McManus/Devin Gray Thirty9thirty8 Flattened Planet Records 2006 Terrence McManus/Michael Lewis/Adam Linz/J.T. Bates Live at the Clown Lounge Flattened Planet Records 2006
Although legitimate releases, both these sessions, on guitarist Terrence McManus' own Flattened Planet Records, have the look, feel, intimacy and immediacy of the best bootlegs. The cleverly constructed Thirty9Thirty8 is ...
read moreTerrence McManus: Bates/Linz/McManus & Pastellic Reflections
by Matthew Miller
Bates/Linz/ McManus Bates/Linz/ McManus Flattened Planet 2006 Terrence McManus/Joe Battaglia Pastellic Reflections Flattened Planet 2006
One of the joys of completely improvised music is the urgency and utter possibility lurking in each phrase. These provocative new releases, the first two on guitarist Terrence McManus' Flattened Planet label, restlessly push the improvisational ...
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