Jazz Articles about Bill MacKay

About Bill MacKay

Album Review

Broken Things: Swim to the River

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 16, 2008

Album molto interessante questo Swim To The River. Innanzitutto è di difficile classificazione, e poi ha una capacità di includere vaghe reminiscenze rock, pur mantenendo un aplomb assolutamente integro. Il che non è cosa da poco. Le composizioni sono interessanti, ben articolate, ritmicamente varie, e vivono dell'interazione tra la chitarra di MacKay (che a tratti usa sonorità anni '70 - viene in mente Stephen Stills) ed il sax alto di Greg Ward, sempre molto puntuale ed incisivo, anche se talvolta ...

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Album Review

Bill MacKay and Sounds of Now: Bill MacKay and Sounds of Now

Read "Bill MacKay and Sounds of Now" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
September 3, 2005

Jazz has always been a reflection of diversity and culture. It has grown to embrace the roots of ethnic music originating from global sources. Just as it has flourished in America, its branches have extended to encompass many other musical styles. Some of that can be heard on Sounds of Now, by Chicago guitarist Bill MacKay, who loosely defines the music as “broken or “garage jazz (relating the idea of a broken bottle into which various musical elements have seeped). ...