Jazz Articles about Carson Halley

About Carson Halley

Album Review

Saxophonist Rich Halley's music has, from the very beginning, exuded a steroid-like vibe. The sounds he makes may be able to move the Earth. It may incite a landslide. His tenor sax is as brawny as Sonny Rollins' sound, or Dexter Gordon's. And when he brings powerhouse trombonist reformist Michael Vlatkovich into the fold--a group tagged as the Rich Halley 4--the level of seismic output rises a few notches. A Distant Land, the group's eighth recording, stays in ...

Album Review

Rich Halley 4: Dusk And Dawn

Read "Dusk And Dawn" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
November 21, 2024

Alla testa del suo collaudatissimo quartetto, il settantasettenne tenorsassofonista dell'Oregon Rich Halley confeziona il suo nuovo album, solido e affidabile come sempre (incisione in quel di Portland nel novembre 2023), per quanto, alla lunga (questo dovrebbe essere il sesto capitolo del gruppo dal 2011, tutti su Pine Eagle, anche se nel caso in oggetto dopo un'attesa di nove anni), certi meccanismi, oliatissimi e del tutto congrui, non possano per forza di cose sorprendere più, il che ci fa dare una ...

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Rich Halley 4: Dusk And Dawn

Read "Dusk And Dawn" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 30, 2024

Rich Halley 4's Dusk and Dawn, is a noteworthy testament to the power of jazz as a narrative medium. The album captures the essence of transitional moments, both in time and sound, weaving a tapestry of intricate melodies and intriguing improvisational sequences. Halley, a veteran of the jazz scene with twenty-six recordings as a leader and collaborations with luminaries like Vinny Golia and Oliver Lake, brings his extensive experience to bear on this project. From the opening track, ...

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Dan Raphael / Rich Halley / Carson Halley: Children of the Blue Supermarket

Read "Children of the Blue Supermarket" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
July 19, 2011

The relationship between word and music dates back to before their appearance around the time of King David, who presided over the greatest union of the two, sang and probably danced to his own Psalms. According to John the Evangelist, in principio erat verbum--or, as the Latin from his most celebrated introduction to his Gospel--states, “At the beginning there was The Word..." It seems, from John, that in the sound and the fury of God, in the very kinesiology of ...