Jazz Articles about Gerry Hemingway

About Gerry Hemingway

Album Review

Rodrigo Amado: Beyond The Margins

Read "Beyond The Margins" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
December 9, 2023

The aptly titled Beyond the Margins is just the latest entry in tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado's burgeoning catalog, and it is certainly further proof that Amado is among the most exciting and accomplished practitioners of free music in the jazz world. Each new release seems to allow him to hone his craft with ever-greater precision, and with an even wider range of emotional resonances. And with a line-up of free jazz veterans that includes pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach, bassist Ingebrigt ...

Album Review

Rodrigo Amado / The Bridge: Beyond The Margins

Read "Beyond The Margins" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 1, 2023

You might think saxophonist Rodrigo Amado's quartet The Bridge is an allusion to Sonny Rollins' performing and recording hiatus between 1959 and 1961. One spent practicing on the Williamsburg Bridge which links Manhattan and Brooklyn. Besides the name, Amado's previous release, Refraction Solo Live At Church Of The Holy Ghost (Trost, 2022), his first unaccompanied recording, draws inspiration from Rollins' sound and references some of the great man's music. More likely, Amado's bridge is the span linking the ...

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Izumi Kimura & Gerry Hemingway: Kairos

by Ian Patterson
October 28, 2023

In ancient Greek kairos means the right time for action. The word relates both to archery and weaving. It is an apt title for pianist Izumi Kimura and drummer/percussionist Gerry Hemingway's debut duo album, as in-the-moment intent, precision and intricacy course through their dialogues. No strangers to one another, they first played as duo in 2016, and then in a trio with Barry Guy on Illuminated Silence (Fundacja Sluchaj, 2019). Compositional credits are shared, though the structures are really frames ...

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Day and Taxi: Live in Baden

Read "Live in Baden" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
May 26, 2023

With only seven releases over its 30 plus year history, the Swiss band Day & Taxi, led by saxophonist and composer Christoph Gallio, is not exactly over documented. That is a shame as it has been a consistently stimulating outfit which takes an expansive view of the free jazz tradition. Gallio has been the only constant of the group's existence, but the current incarnation since 2018 comprising bassist Silvan Jeger and celebrated American drummer, now residing in Switzerland, Gerry Hemingway ...

Album Review

WHO Trio: Strell - The Music of Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington

Read "Strell - The Music of Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
February 23, 2021

Nel 2018 il Who Trio ha festeggiato vent'anni di attività, varando per l'occasione il progetto Strell, dedicato alla rilettura del repertorio di Billy Strayhorn e Duke Ellington, operazione certo non nuova--tutt'altro--e per la quale la prospettiva di rilettura, l'angolo visuale, diventa di conseguenza basilare. In questo album, inciso quasi per intero in studio a Losanna nel maggio 2019 (fa eccezione “Passion Flower," ripresa dal vivo un anno prima nella stessa città), il lavoro di scavo e ricostruzione (o ...

Live Review

Brda Contemporary Music Festival 2019

by Giuseppe Segala
September 26, 2019

Brda Contemporary Music Festival Šmartno (Slovenia) Casa della Cultura, Chiesa di San Martino 12-14.09.2019 Il minuscolo villaggio di Šmartno (San Martino) sorge sulla sommità di un'altura del Brda sloveno, terra ricca di ottimi vini, gemella del vicinissimo Collio friulano. Qui si svolge da nove anni il Brda Contemporary Music Festival, per iniziativa del vivace, attivissimo batterista Zlatko Kaučič. Il borgo fortificato è avvolto ancora dalle mura trecentesche, con sei basse torri cilindriche e un ...

Album Review

2° Ètage (Christine Wodrascka - Jean Luc Cappozzo - Gerry Hemingway): Grey Matter

Read "Grey Matter" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
October 31, 2014

Precisione nei dettagli, ascolto reciproco, ricerca della sintonia. Questi i capisaldi su cui si basa la musica di 2° étage. Fin dalle prime note, è chiaro l'approccio del trio di Christine Wodrascka, Jean-Luc Cappozzo e Gerry Hemingway, che costruisce una musica liberamente improvvisata, sintonizzata su movimenti dinamici minimi, timbri che si fondono, facendo perdere la specifica fisionomia del singolo strumento a favore dell'insieme. Soprattutto la tromba abbandona spesso la propria identità sonora e timbrica, per inoltrarsi in esplorazioni e indagare ...