Jazz Articles about David Eyges

About David Eyges

Album Review

It's a risky venture to record an album based purely on improvisation. Cellist David Eyges, saxophonist Arthur Blythe, and drummer Abe Speller took a chance going into the studio armed solely with their own individual spontaneous creativity; they left with ten tracks that travel hesitantly through arid realms of a jazz wasteland, reaching desperately for snatches of blues, R&B, and heavy metal. The title track is the most cohesive of the bunch, with the trio allowing a relaxed ...

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David Eyges: Ace

by Clifford Allen
February 6, 2005

Despite its seeming obscurity, the cello has a fairly long history in jazz and improvised music. Apart from Oscar Pettiford's use of it in the early '50s, the instrument came into its own in the '60s and '70s under the guidance of such figures as Calo Scott, Ron Carter, Joel Freedman, Alan Silva, Abdul Wadud, and David Eyges. Eyges' name will be familiar to many, but his association with Indiana-based cellist and composer David Baker and work with Byard Lancaster ...