Jazz Articles about Dylan Ryan

About Dylan Ryan

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OSU Jazz Orchestra: Angular Tuesday

Read "Angular Tuesday" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 9, 2024

The splendid Oklahoma State University Jazz Orchestra seldom pauses for breath on Angular Tuesday, its third album under director Tommy Poole. The ensemble enters as though shot from a cannon on Don Menza's frenzied “Time Check," and keeps on swinging and swaying through a lively program that encompasses sunlit compositions by Maria Schneider, Bob Mintzer, Thad Jones, Don Grolnick, Matt Catingub and Matt Harris, plus the animated and funky title selection, written by saxophonist Matthew Howell in 2021, his senior ...

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Dylan Ryan Sand: Sky Bleached

Read "Sky Bleached" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
March 11, 2013

Faintly anarchic song-forms, coupled with a new-wave formulation of the jazz-rock trio setting forges a compelling imprint with drummer Dylan Ryan's debut solo effort. And it's one of those match made in heaven type of scenarios, where the respective musicians' styles, synergy, and use of space as a supplementary instrument coalesce into a program that bears an imprint of authenticity.Ryan's work with the prog-jazz band Herculaneum and other ensembles that skirt the outside realm speak to a non-conforming ...

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Herculaneum: Uchu

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 29, 2012

Fin dagli esordi la band chicagoana, Herculaneum si caratterizza per un baricentro musicale assai composito che sa integrare le suggestioni ritmiche del progressive rock con la più classica improvvisazione jazzistica. Per molti versi ci troviamo di fronte ad un work in progress che investe prima di tutto la formazione, soggetta sempre a cambiamenti funzionali al percorso preso sul momento. Per questo quarto CD rimangono fuori chitarra e vibrafono in favore di un suono di articolata potenza, con quattro fiati e ...