Jazz Articles about Gerry Hemingway

About Gerry Hemingway

Album Review

Drummer Gerry Hemingway penned these solo works from 1995-2012 and recorded the album at various points during this timeframe. Essentially, the CD and companion DVD pinpoint his artistic proclivities partly framed in multimedia. It took 15 years to complete the project. The program is divided into four parts: mist, dust, light, and sex, although the CD track list solely denotes the 15 works appearing in sequential order without references to the four topics. Viewing the film is meant ...

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2° ‘etage: Grey Matter

Read "Grey Matter" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
February 12, 2014

The album liners disclose that 2° 'etage improvises with the panache of storytellers, painters and poets. Starkly expressive, the program is sculpted with a mindset that parlays the old adage, “let the chips fall where they may," largely framed on airy dialogues, minimalism and unorthodox soundscapes. They work from a platform, consisting of fractured passages and take their time unraveling themes other than spots where eminent drummer Gerry Hemingway interjects rumbling fills into a broad plane of free-flowing exchanges.

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Gerry Hemingway: Riptide

Read "Riptide" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 24, 2011

Ventiquattro anni di vita, nove dischi all'attivo, diciotto musicisti coinvolti nel progetto: da Michael Moore a Don Byron, da Mark Dresser a Walter Wierbos, passando per Ray Anderson, Frank Gratkowski, Ernst Reijseger e Palle Danielsson. Ne ha fatta di strada il quintetto di Gerry Hemingway dal 1987, anno in cui Outerbridge Crossing, uscito per la Sound Aspects, segnò l'esordio discografico dell'allora neonata formazione. Ne ha fatta di strada e ne ha scritte di pagine indimenticabili nel grande libro del jazz ...

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Gerry Hemingway Quintet: Riptide

by Mark Corroto
September 5, 2011

Over the past 25 years, the lineup of drummer/percussionist Gerry Hemingway's quintet might have changed, but his central organizing concepts have remained constant. Like a working dog, specifically a shepherd, he always seems to be organizing chaos and safeguarding melody. Well, that is, when he isn't inciting the tumult.The most recent variation of his quintet floats a two-horn, Oscar Noriega and Ellery Eskelin frontline, along with Hemmingway's his recent favorite collaborator, guitarist Terrence McManus, and bassist Kermit Driscoll.

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Ellery Eskelin - Gerry Hemingway: Inbetween Spaces

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 2, 2011

Il dinoccolato sassofono di Eskelin e la poliedrica percussione di Hemingway sembrano conoscersi da sempre e non solo per la straordinaria profondità di dialogo che riescono a instaurare in questo bellissimo disco. Da un'ipotesi iniziale fatta di sostanziali contrasti e quindi di suono contrapposto alla percussione o di melodia sovrapposta alla pulsione, nasce invece una musica di straordinario respiro che rimanda di continuo all'Africa e a una circolarità insistente ma anche al jazz notturno e metropolitano ("Motion and Thought") a ...

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Album Review

Gerry Hemingway: Songs

by Martin Longley
December 10, 2009

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 ...

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Gerry Hemingway Twofer: Less is More & Demon Chaser

by Kurt Gottschalk
October 3, 2009

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 ...