Jazz Articles about Dave Rempis

The Rempis Percussion Quartet: Hunter-Gatherers

by John Sharpe
October 3, 2007

Recorded live on tour at the Hunter-Gatherer club in Columbia, South Carolina, this double CD is the third release from saxophonist Dave Rempis' The Rempis Percussion Quartet, and a logical progression for what has been called one of the best live bands in Chicago.

Rempis' most high profile gig is providing the improvisational firepower to the frontline of the Vandermark 5, but his saxophones are increasingly featured in a range of bands on the fertile Chicago scene. The ...

The Rempis Percussion Quartet: Hunter-Gatherers

by Nic Jones
October 2, 2007

As this group has had the opportunity to come of age on record it's become clear that it mines a seam of musical territory similar to that once worked by the trio British alto saxophonist Mike Osborne had with bassist Harry Miller and drummer Louis Moholo back in the 1970s. They owe it no overt debt of allegiance, however, it's simply the case that both groups occupy a similar free space.

That's clear from the off on this two-disc set. ...

Dave Rempis: Communication, Improvisation and No Screwing Around

by Paul Olson
August 7, 2006

Saxophonist Dave Rempis embodies all of the best qualities of the Chicago improvisational music scene: he's a gifted but disciplined player who knows his instruments inside and out; he's a fearless, imaginative improviser; and he uncomplainingly works his ass off.Although he also plays tenor and baritone saxophones, Rempis is best known as an altoist. Certainly, that's the horn he's on most often in the Vandermark 5, Chicago reedsman Ken Vandermark's flagship group and the band with which Rempis ...

The Rempis Percussion Quartet: Rip Tear Crunch

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 6, 2006

Dopo lo scoppiettante Circular Logic, esordio dal vivo del 2005 testimoniato da un’edizione limitata dell’etichetta Utech, ecco Rip Tear Crunch album in studio del Rempis Percussion Quartet, una delle formazioni più effervescenti della vivace scena sperimentale di Chicago. Forse più conosciuto per essere “l’altro sassofonista“ dei Vandermark 5, Dave Rempis dimostra in queste due incisioni di avere la caratura del leader, di possedere una lucida progettualità e di essere solista di assoluto livello, sia con il prediletto sax alto che ...

Dave Rempis Quartet: Out of Season

by Peter Aaron
July 22, 2004

Saxophonist Dave Rempis blew onto the Windy City free jazz scene in 1999, when he replaced Mars Williams in The Vandermark 5, making his scorching presence known on that band's revered third album, Simpatico (Atavistic). Out of Season is the debut of Rempis's quartet, which includes drummer Tim Daisy (who also plays in the V5, as well as in another Rempis project, Triage), piano/synth wizard and violinist Jim Baker, and bassist Jason Roebke, a student of Roscoe Mitchell. A pristine, ...

Dave Rempis Quartet: Out Of Season

by Jerry D'Souza
June 18, 2004

What is, and what may have been, define structure. There are four fine musicians here and they get off to a darn good start on the brawny tenor of Dave Rempis. There is depth and there is direction--but along the way, the players pull back and go into a maze they can't work out of. Microcosms seeking body flit in and out and never coalesce into one becoming, recognisable whole. Was that a mere aberration, thoughts in search of a ...