Jazz Articles about Anthony Pirog

About Anthony Pirog

Album Review

Janel Leppin, Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is To Love

Read "To March Is To Love" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 16, 2024

Janel Leppin, a multi-instrumentalist and composer known for her innovative approach to music, leads her Ensemble Volcanic Ash in their latest release, To March Is To Love. Her debut album, Ensemble Volcanic Ash, released in 2022, garnered widespread acclaim. Now, with her follow-up, Leppin continues to push boundaries and explore new sonic landscapes. This project, recorded live in the studio, features a stellar sextet. Her versatility and creative vision have made her a distinctive voice in contemporary music. Notably, Leppin ...

Album Review

The Messthetics: The Messthetics And James Brandon Lewis

Read "The Messthetics And James Brandon Lewis" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
June 6, 2024

There are few examples of ranking jazz saxophonists collaborating with rock bands, and even fewer that are as successful as this one featuring tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis and the instrumental trio The Messthetics. One notable precedent is the partnership of Ethiopian tenor saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya with Dutch punk band The Ex, which exploded into life in concert and on record periodically between 2006 and 2012. In the mid-1950s, Mekurya, who wore a lion's mane headdress when appearing in Addis ...

Radio & Podcasts

Anthony Pirog, Les Paul, Ethan Philion and More

by Jerome Wilson
March 20, 2024

This show has electronics, guitarists, vintage Chicago avant work, and much more. Musicians heard include Anthony Pirog, Les Paul, Philip Cohran, Ethan Philion, and Bobby Hutcherson. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Jeremy Dutton “The Mother" from Anyone Is Better Than Here (Self-Produced) 00:54 Miles Davis “Masqualero" from Sorcerer (Columbia) 6:26 Host Speaks 15:18 Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra “One ...

Album Review

Joel Harrison &. Anthony Pirog: The Great Mirage

Read "The Great Mirage" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
March 5, 2023

The gritty, jammy sonics of the leadoff title track quickly convince the listener that avant guitarists Joel Harrison and Anthony Pirog are hellbent on getting it all out of their systems on The Great Mirage. Bassist Stephan Crump, who lays down his acoustic bass and goes electric, and daredevil drummer Allison Miller, who has absolutely no problem going from zero-to-eternity and cymbal splash to pure bash, sign on and hell breaks loose: witness the obstinate, speed-rock take on ...

Radio & Podcasts

New music from Anthony Pirog, Mary Halvorson, Toine Thys, & Dan Fortin, and more

by Bob Osborne
November 30, 2020

On this edition exciting new music from Anthony Pirog, Mary Halvorson, Toine Thys, Dan Fortin, Jeff Kimmel Ishmael Ali & Bill Harris, and, Sabir Mateen Christopher Dell Christian Ramond & Klaus Kugel, a subscriber special from Dave Douglas, plus rereleased albums from the 1960s from Marion Brown. Playlist Anthony Pirog “Adonna The Painter" from Pocket Poem (Cuneiform) 00:00 Jeff Kimmel, Ishmael Ali, Bill Harris “Focus on Vanity" from A Pound of Salt (Orbit577) 06:38 Mary Halvorson's Code Girl ...

Multiple Reviews

Where Is Home: Janel & Anthony and Palo Colorado Dream: Anthony Pirog

by Glenn Astarita
January 8, 2015

Modern era guitar heroes such as Nels Cline, Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell are expressive stylists, possessing distinct ways of conveying a narrative amid branded and well-defined stylizations. No need to compare, but from a fundamental standpoint, these gents and other elite craftsmen bear the goods that often transcend the norm or anticipated methods of spinning a tune or two. However, members of the elite are students of more than one genre. They absorb the merits of Americana, classical, jazz, ...

Album Review

Anthony Pirog: Palo Colorado Dream

Read "Palo Colorado Dream" reviewed by Jeffrey Uhrich

by Jeffrey Uhrich
October 28, 2014

Guitarist Anthony Pirog fearlessly pushes boundaries with his provocative debut album, Palo Colorado Dream. Pirog's unabashed and inventive use of effects and loops, in combination with his dazzling knowledge of the various sounds his guitar is capable of creating, draws the listener into his own unique and expressive musical world. Palo Colorado Dream is not for the faint of heart. Pirog can quickly move from a seductive and tranquil atmosphere of chime-like echoes to the sonic bombast of a finely ...