Jazz Articles about Alex Chadsey

About Alex Chadsey

Album Review

The fourth album from the trio Duende Libre is entitled Invocation, the act of summoning a deity or the supernatural. The band's name itself is rooted in flamenco culture, a term of great emotion that identifies a magical quality in an artist. The concept was famously theorized by Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, identifying elements that quantify this conception--irrationality, earthiness, a heightened awareness of death, and a touch of the diabolical. It is both a gift and a burden, a ...

Album Review

Duende Libre: The Dance She Spoke

Read "The Dance She Spoke" reviewed by Paul Rauch

by Paul Rauch
August 9, 2020

It has often been said that art is all about risk, and there certainly is a lot of truth to that statement. There is no greater forum in modern art for risk than jazz music, the degree of that factor being multiplied exponentially when linking or fusing it with other musical styles. In the case of the Seattle based band Duende Libre, that leap of faith takes them to exploring world music forms through the lens of modern jazz. On ...