Jazz Articles about Billy Mohler

About Billy Mohler

Album Review

David Lord: Forest Standards Vol. 2

Read "Forest Standards Vol. 2" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
October 28, 2020

Although his many years spent on the expansive plains of Wichita, Kansas, wouldn't make it likely that guitarist David Lord developed an obsession with the darker recesses of forest life, his music certainly conveys a deep appreciation of that somewhat otherworldly realm. On his Forest Standards Vol. 1 (BIG EGO Records, 2018) and current Vol. 2 follow-up, Lord's song titles reveal a particular fondness for fungi of all kinds—Coltricia, Polypores, and other colorful, quietly growing things which nonspecialists will undoubtedly ...

Radio & Podcasts

Billy Mohler, Mat Walerian, Larry Ochs, Aram Shelton, Alister Spence and More

by Maurice Hogue
September 9, 2020

I was so taken by bassist Billy Mohler's playing with the Dan Rosenboom Quartet which opens this show, I had to go find Mohler's music. He's featured in the third hour. Also featured are a bunch of great new releases: multi-reedist Mat Walerian with a superb band of Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Hamid Drake, saxophonists Larry Ochs and Aram Shelton with their new release for Clean Feed, saxophonist Sam Decker (there's a trend here), more sax from Sweden's Martin ...

Album Review

Billy Mohler: Focus!

Read "Focus!" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
April 15, 2019

Strano quartetto quello che dà alle stampe Focus. Vi troviamo Shane Endsley e Nate Wood dei Kneebody, Chris Speed degli Human Feel e Claudia Quintet e... Billy Mohler dei The Calling, proprio la pop band di “Wherever You Will Go" tormentone ai primi posti delle classifiche di mezzo mondo (tra cui anche quella italiana ) nell'ormai lontano 2002. Perché Mohler, dopo la laurea al Berklee College of Music e l'esperienza al Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, diventa ...