Jazz Articles about Dave Rempis

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 ...

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, ...