Jazz Articles about Dom Minasi

About Dom Minasi

On and Off the Grid

This is the second entry for my new column at All About Jazz. I actually published What's The Point? in my own blog in January 2012. All About Jazz asked if I would be interested in writing for them; I was surprised and honored. I decided to update and rewrite the original article; because of the response and all the emails I received, I wanted to expand and make some of my points longer and clearer. I have increased the ...

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On and Off the Grid

What's The Point, Part 1

by Dom Minasi
February 9, 2012

This is the first entry for my new column at All About Jazz. I actually published What's The Point? in my own blog in January 2012. All About Jazz asked if I would be interested in writing for them; I was surprised and honored. I decided to update and rewrite the original article; because of the response and all the emails I received, I wanted to expand and make some of my points longer and clearer. I have increased the ...

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Album Review

Dom Minasi: Looking Out, Looking In

Read "Looking Out, Looking In" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
November 3, 2011

Over three days in July, 2011 guitarist Dom Minasi entered Studio 104 in New York and recorded seven solo electric guitar improvisations. The tunes, gathered together as Looking Out, Looking In, form Minasi's first ever solo album. The guitarist is an experienced improviser with an extensive discography. He's capable of impressive flights of musical fancy, of inspired and inspiring ideas. Minasi's previous 2011 release, The Bird, The Girl & The Donkey (Re:konstruKt) featured some intense and challenging ...

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Album Review

Dom Minasi: The Bird, The Girl, The Donkey

Read "The Bird, The Girl, The Donkey" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
February 13, 2011

New York guitarist Dom Minasi has years of experience on the jazz scene as a player, writer, improviser and educator. The Bird, The Girl and The Donkey finds Minasi in the company of some other leading lights of the New York improvised music scene, on five extended pieces characterized by some adventurous interplay, some good-humored musical ideas, and a batch of great titles. It's altoist Blaise Siwula whose presence is most obviously stamped upon the music: intense, ...

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Album Review

Dom Minasi: The Bird, The Girl And The Donkey

Read "The Bird, The Girl And The Donkey" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
January 7, 2011

This music is like a shot of adrenaline to the heart. It's full of energy and raw power, and it brings a little bit of pain along with it. This quintet delivers ferocious avant-garde music that, essentially, runs full tilt from beginning to end. Guitarist Dom Minasi's name is at the top of the marquee, but the music on The Bird, The Girl And The Donkey is delivered by a collective presence; Minasi is, in fact, one ...

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Album Review

Dom Minasi String Quartet: Dissonance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Read "Dissonance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
November 9, 2010

Although the titles of this set of miniature concerti are admittedly quirky it is this very character that gives the music of the Dom Minasi String Quartet's Dissonance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder startling precision as well as emotion. Often one or the other characteristic is largely absent from music of this nature: that which has been composed and improvised upon as well. Did the Brandenburg Concertos not have bubbling emotion? And yet were they not so mathematically precise. Or ...

Album Review

Dom Minasi: Dissonance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Read "Dissonance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 15, 2010

Dom Minasi ha creato questo quartetto circa quattro anni fa, dopo aver inciso The Vampire's Revenge che prevedeva una formazione di quindici elementi. Si tratta di un quartetto anomalo di strumenti a corda, diverso dal quartetto d'archi classico. Per questo la formazione è in grado di produrre un sound proprio, dato soprattutto dall'accostamento del nitido pizzicato della chitarra al sound prevalentemente scuro di tre strumenti ad arco quali violino, violoncello e contrabbasso. Certo il tipo stesso di formazione e il ...