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Gerry Hemingway: Songs
by Martin Longley
When drummer Gerry Hemingway decides to pursue a song-based project, the only predictable outcome is that it will be unpredictable. His approach to composition includes elements of rock, electronica, minimalism and Broadway intimacy, yet can't be deemed any of these things. As well as the music, Hemingway has also penned the words. His chosen voice is Lisa Sokolov, who skirts around most of the jazz clichés, without settling fully on any other shackled forms. Each song features echoes of fast-switching ...
Continue ReadingGerry Hemingway Twofer: Less is More & Demon Chaser
by Kurt Gottschalk
WHO Trio Less is More Clean Feed 2009 Gerry Hemingway Quintet Demon Chaser hatOLOGY 2009 Much seems to have gone down in the decade since Michel Wintsch, Gerry Hemingway and Banz Oester released Identity on Leo. That was a solid piano jazz record with hints of the quietude that was, apparently, to come. For ...
Continue ReadingThe Art of Listening: A Sense of Place
by AAJ Staff
By Gerry Hemingway I am writing to offer my insights about the experience of listening from the perspective of being a musician. The art of listening is, of course, a somewhat open-ended topic that, for the sake of this article, will concentrate primarily on a few points of what I have observed and can articulate verbally about on the experience of music and sound for me as a player and creator of composed and improvised music. I am ...
Continue ReadingGerry Hemingway Quintet: Demon Chaser
by Troy Collins
Demon Chaser, which documents a live concert recorded at Ottenbrucher Bahnhof in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany on March 2nd, 1993, stands tall in drummer Gerry Hemingway's discography as one of the finest achievements of his celebrated transatlantic quintet. This is its second printing.
Synchronous with the dissolution of the classic Anthony Braxton quartet of the late eighties/early nineties, Hemingway embarked on a different path, eschewing Braxton's oblique methodology in favor of an open-minded neo-traditional approach. Comprised of artists from America ...
Continue ReadingGerry Hemingway: Buffalo Pearl & Kinetics
by Stuart Broomer
John Butcher/ Gerry Hemingway Buffalo Pearl Auricle 2008 Gerry Hemingway/ Thomas Lehn Kinetics Auricle 2008
Gerry Hemingway isn't restricted by any particular concept of the drummer. He's led forceful bands with sidemen like Ellery Eskelin and Ray Anderson, updating hard bop and post-bop in the process and made empathetic contributions to ...
Continue ReadingMauger: The Beautiful Enabler
by AAJ Italy Staff
Che stimolante idea fare triangolare il sax contralto di Rudresh Mahanthappa, il contrabbasso di Mark Dresser e la batteria di Gerry Hemingway! Confronto tra generazioni, innanzitutto: Mahanthappa si è fatto conoscere negli ultimi anni, in particolare per le frequenti collaborazioni con il pianista Vijay Iyer, con cui condivide l'origine indiana [Mahanthappa è cresciuto comunque nel Colorado ed è curiosamente nato a Trieste!], mentre Dresser e Hemingway hanno sin dagli anni Settanta incrociato i loro destini, in particolare nel quartetto di ...
Continue ReadingGerry Hemingway: Double Blues Crossing and The Whimbler
by Kurt Gottschalk
Gerry Hemingway Double Blues Crossing Between the Lines 2005 Gerry Hemingway The Whimbler Clean Feed 2005 It'd be too easy to make drummer jokes (How can you tell when a drummer's at the door? The knocking keeps getting faster.), but there might be some relevance to it. Hemingway possesses some talent many percussionists lack, ...
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