Jazz Articles about Dave Rempis

Ballister Trio: Mechanisms

by Mark Corroto
May 20, 2012

Stop me if you've heard this one before. A free improvising trio walks into a club and begins a live performance by ripping the ears off its listeners. No joke here, just that flexing muscular music isn't for the faint-at-heart. And certainly the trio of saxophonist Dave Rempis, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love is an audacious one.Mechanisms is their second recording. Their first, Bastard String was self-produced in 2010 and, like this disc, recorded live. It ...

The Rempis Percussion Quartet: Montreal Parade

by Troy Collins
March 16, 2011

Since joining the Vandermark 5 in 1999, saxophonist Dave Rempis has maintained a high profile in the fertile Chicago scene. In addition to his role as a presenter and organizer of numerous music festivals, he can be heard as leader, co-leader and collaborator in more than a half dozen different projects in the Windy City, with The Rempis Percussion Quartet being one of his most consistently engaging and adventurous. The ensemble's personnel have remained unchanged since its inception ...

The Rempis Percussion Quartet: Montreal Parade

by Dan Bilawsky
March 4, 2011

Descriptive misdirection seems to be an important element in some sectors of the jazz world today. A group called The Nels Cline Singers puts out records where nary a vocalist can be found, and The Rempis Percussion Quartet is two members shy of being a full-fledged percussion outfit. While Cline's band uses a moniker that lacks complete truthfulness, saxophonist Dave Rempis doesn't lie. It's true that only two of the four members of his group wear the percussion tag, but ...

Dave Rempis - Frank Rosaly: Cyrillic

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 25, 2010

Artisti ben conosciuti da chi bazzica la scena creative di Chicago, il sassofonista Dave Rempis [Vandermark 5] e il batterista Frank Rosaly [Mandarin Movie, Flatlands Collective] condividono sin dal 2004 un dialogo nel quale interplay e libertà, propulsione e ricerca timbrica rivestono la medesima importanza. Le otto composizioni/improvvisazioni contenute in questo Cyrillic trasportano facilmente l'ascoltatore dentro questo mondo: il vocabolario è quello consueto della scena chicagoana, un lessico che nasce dalla grande stagione della New Thing e che attraverso la ...

The Engines: Wire and Brass

by Mark Corroto
May 15, 2010

The second disc by the Chicago collaboration known as The Engines is a live date recorded at the Hungry Brain in April of 2008. Each player, a talented leader in his own right, adds equal measure to create music that dodges inside and out of composed direction and free form improvising.

Originally organized as a trio by saxophonist Dave Rempis (the yin to Ken Vandermark's yang in the Vandermark 5), The Engines' drummer Tim Daisy ( the saxophonist's ...

Dave Rempis / Frank Rosaly: Cyrillic

by Troy Collins
January 5, 2010

Since 2004, the duo of saxophonist Dave Rempis and drummer Frank Rosaly has committed to exploring the textural, tonal and rhythmic possibilities of spontaneous improvisation, drawing upon a rich legacy of similar pairings for its studio debut, Cyrillic. Chicago scene regulars whose congenial rapport has been honed in The Rempis Percussion Quartet and The Ingebrigt Haker Flaten Quintet, Rempis and Rosaly's studied interplay lends even the most threadbare of skeletal themes a sense of foresight, making this fully improvised session ...

Rempis Percussion Quartet: Hunter-Gatherers

by Jeff Stockton
December 18, 2007

The Chicago Reader has called the Rempis Percussion Quartet “the best live band in town, which could very well be true, as long as the Vandermark 5 is away. Of course, the two bands share a drummer (Tim Daisy) and saxophonist Dave Rempis (here on alto, tenor and baritone) who, in the last few years, has established his own reputation as a tirelessly creative improviser and who, by Ken Vandermark's own admission, has pretty much outstripped him in terms of ...