Jazz Articles about Ed Schuller

About Ed Schuller

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Spacious, articulate, and artfully composed, the material heard on Russ Lossing's As It Grows --apparently some of it improvised and some composed--is consistently musical and satisfyingly rangy. Although there's a persistent strain of finespun moodiness that isn't for seekers of the heavy groove, there's enough heart-stopping beauty on this disc to make you forget, momentarily, that Keith Jarrett ever existed. This is the music Cecil Taylor might've made if he cared about conventional notions of musical pleasureability. All comparisons aside, ...

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Ed Schuller: Ong Song (Music for Acoustic Bass)

Read "Ong Song (Music for Acoustic Bass)" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
April 12, 2002

The rap chant “Give it up for the bass players some!" is appropriately echoed on the final selection on bassist Ed Schller’s solo recording “Ong Song". The funky selection ends with a tribute to all bass players with a Bassist’s roll call, which includes the likes of Charles Mingus, Dave Holland, Charlie Hayden, and Stanley Clarke. Ong Song is a complete solo recording for the acoustic bass which was conceived over four years to express and highlight the instrument in ...