Jazz Articles about Aron Namenwirth

About Aron Namenwirth

Album Review

Daniel Carter, who--if not the epitome of free consciousness then is very well within the immediate vicinity of striking range--gives props to electric Miles Davis and The Beatles' psychedelica with mischief and madness on the hell bent and heaven sent Magic Heart. Their second entrance into the Carter's life long discography, Playfield is a true Carter collective: intuitively passing the torch from vocalist Luisa Muhr, to Ayumi Ishito, tenor sax and electronics, pianist Eric Plaks, guitarists/electronics Aron Namenwirth ...

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Playfield: Stepping Out

Read "Stepping Out" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
October 27, 2022

577 Records founder, chief architect, free blowing, free willed, harmonic rebel and reed master Daniel Carter has never shied away from the unknown metropolis. From the silent instant which captures the imagination and sends it sleighing its own peaks and valleys, Carter, and whoever chooses to accept his challenge to participate, let the moment move them and the music into new spaces. Playfield, as this particular congregate of players from downtown NY is dubbed, brings it all to ...

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Aron Namenwirth, Daniel Carter, Joe Hertenstein, Zach Swanson: Live at the Bushwick Series

Read "Live at the Bushwick Series" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 29, 2022

Un quartetto di cui il chitarrista Aron Namenwirth è il primo (e sul CD l'unico) firmatario ma che abbraccia in realtà il “vangelo" dell'improvvisazione collettiva (facendo non poco leva sul polistrumentismo quanto mai eclettico di Daniel Carter, che affianca alla tromba sax tenore, soprano e contralto) firma questo brillante lavoro il cui sdipanarsi (sei episodi svarianti dai quattro ai dieci minuti) non mostra mai la corda, rischio così frequente (verrebbe da dire quasi fisiologico) in una formula tanto praticata quanto ...

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Aron Namenwirth / Daniel Carter / Joe Hertenstein / Zach Swanson: Live At The Bushwick Series

Read "Live At The Bushwick Series" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
February 26, 2020

This instalment of the Live At The Bushwick Series offers a communiqué from the front line of free jazz in New York City. It's the sort of below the radar activity which is rarely documented, but nonetheless deserves to be heard. In this particular case, it's also part of an ongoing event, curated by saxophonist and label boss Stephen Gauci, which happens downstairs every Monday night in Brooklyn's Bushwick Public House. Guitarist Aron Namenwirth and trumpeter and reedman Daniel Carter ...