Jazz Articles about Chris Cheek

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Bruno Råberg: Lifelines

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 28, 2009

Bassista e compositore svedese, Bruno Råberg da qualche anno realizza album da solista con musicisti prevalentemente americani, tutti di gran classe. Sesto lavoro solistico, Lifelines vede assieme al leader il sassofonista Chris Cheek, il chitarrista Ben Monder, Matt Wilson e Ted Poor alla batteria. Si tratta di un album doppio, Blue Disk è il primo disco e Red Disk il secondo, in cui l'organico è stabile eccezion fatta per la batteria alla quale si alternano Matt Wilson e Ted Poor. ...

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Rudder: Matorning

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 19, 2009

Ad un primo ascolto Motorning delude. Perché leggendo sulla copertina dai colori acidi i nomi di Chris Cheek, personaggio di punta della scena newyorchese, gran stilista del saxofono, e di Tim Lefevre, protagonista di alcuni tra i progetti più trasversali di quell'area come il trio Bedrock di Uri Caine, le aspettative erano per una musica creativa, irriverente, ad alto tasso di adrenalina e di rischio. E invece ci si trova immersi in un tourbillon un poco sconclusionato di ritmi binari, ...

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Jakob Bro: Pearl River

by Jakob Baekgaard
August 8, 2007

Sometimes, finding a good jazz record is a bit like fishing: either you catch something or you don't. The search is always on for that particular phrase, beat or tune that will transport the mind to a state of bliss: the state called jazz. Coming across an album like Pearl River seems like a lucky find. Like finding a pearl in a river. But there's more than plain luck involved in the case of Danish guitarist Jakob Bro. ...

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Chris Cheek: Coral; Orquestra Jazz do Matinhos Invites Chris Cheek

by Donald Elfman
April 7, 2007

Nikolaj Hess/Jens Skou Olsen/Gregory Hutchinson/Cheek Chris Coral Rainbow-Exlibris 2007 Orchestra Jazz de Matosinhos Invites Chris Cheek Fresh Sound-New Talent 2007

Just when you thought that the vocabulary and sound of a piano trio were spent, along comes an inventive group of musicians offering a fresh approach to some rather intriguing old ...

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Chris Cheek: Blues Cruise

by Paul Olson
July 16, 2006

Saxophonist Chris Cheek is such a hardworking New York sideman that it's understandable that he hasn't been recording prolifically as a leader. Still, his last CD, Vine, appeared in 1999, so his new quartet set, Blues Cruise, is his first release in six years.The long hiatus certainly seems not to have produced any sense of anxiety or hurry, however. If Blues Cruise stands out from the current crop of recordings from the NYC saxophone crowd, it's due to its lack ...

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Chris Cheek: Blues Cruise

by Matt Merewitz
July 8, 2006

Even though he has turned in one stunning performance after another on albums by Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, Guillermo Klein's Los Gauchos and various lesser-known, though equally interesting ensembles, Chris Cheek is still a lurker.

Your only good chance of seeing this reedman live is in New York or on the other side of the pond, where he makes frequent tours. The problem has nothing to do with Cheek's playing. It's the ...

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Paul Motian Band: Garden of Eden

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 29, 2006

Il batterista Paul Motian compie 75 anni e si rimette in discussione con una nuova versione del suo gruppo allargato che cambia nome e diventa semplicemente Paul Motian Band perdendo i riferimenti all'Electric Bebop. Allo stesso tempo nella strumentazione del gruppo si aggiunge una chitarra e questa mossa porta a tre le presenze dello strumento che parrebbe meno assoggettabile ai chiaroscuri che da sempre caratterizzano la poetica del batterista. Invece i tre chitarristi (Ben Monder, Steve Cardenas e il meno ...