Jazz Articles about Clay Giberson

Clay Giberson: Upper Road

by Paul West
July 4, 2002

Like a lot of seasoned, contemporary jazz pianists, Clay Giberson creates music that just about always works, but always works its most magic when it takes chances and breaks free from tradition. It’s not so much a problem in contemporary jazz as it is an ever-so-slightly unfulfilled promise: it’s music that is fine, damn fine even, for what it is, but always hints at going somewhere a little more special.

With Upper Road, Giberson and an extensive crew run a ...