Jazz Articles about Chase Kuesel

About Chase Kuesel

Album Review

The debut album from flautist Alex Hamburger is a strong addition to the growing number of jazz albums drawing inspiration from the work and lives of prominent female artists. She plays here the compositions of several women composers, Geri Allen, Mary Lou Williams andJoni Mitchell, and sets her own music to the words of authors Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and her grandmother, Paraguayan poet and activist Ana Maria R. Codas. The music on the album is in a ...

Album Review

Chase Kuesel: Space Between

Read "Space Between" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
June 3, 2020

Drummer and composer Chase Kuesel is based in Brooklyn, but his debut release as leader, Space Between, arose from a year spent studying in Basel as part of a select group of young musicians funded through the Focusyear Artist Grant. It's an album that's notable for Kuesel's ambitious compositions--drawing on influences including Olivier Messiaen, Norma Winstone and Guillermo Klein, to whom Kuesel dedicates “Axis (For GK)"--and for the stylish interpretations crafted by the drummer and his bandmates. Four ...