Jazz Articles about Gerry Hemingway

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The Art of Listening: A Sense of Place

by AAJ Staff
August 14, 2009

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 ...

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Gerry Hemingway Quintet: Demon Chaser

by Troy Collins
June 28, 2009

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 ...

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Gerry Hemingway: Buffalo Pearl & Kinetics

by Stuart Broomer
March 7, 2009

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 ...

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Mauger: The Beautiful Enabler

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 24, 2008

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 ...

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Gerry Hemingway: Double Blues Crossing and The Whimbler

by Kurt Gottschalk
May 28, 2006

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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Gerry Hemingway: The Whimbler

by Michael McCaw
January 8, 2006

For those who may approach Gerry Hemingway as an acolyte of Anthony Braxton and thus shy away from the often dense musical milieu put forth by Braxton and his ilk, The Whimbler is cause for intrigue and celebration. And for those who approach Hemmingway for exactly this association, don't turn away because the compositions aren't mathematical equations.Working with the pliable and flexible combo of Ellery Eskelin (tenor), Herb Robertson (trumpet), and Mark Helias (basses), Hemmingway has crafted nine ...

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Gerry Hemingway: The Whimbler

by Mark Corroto
August 8, 2005

Gerry Hemingway's second release on Clean Feed changes a couple of musical partners, but it keeps that critical vibe alive. Hemingway retains tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin from Devil's Paradise (2003) but replaces bassist Mark Dresser with Mark Helias and swaps out Ray Anderson's trombone for Herb Robertson's trumpet.

This new quartet replaces original voices with, well, more original voices. The distinctive sounds of each musician make The Whimbler an animated session. Ellery Eskelin has developed a cult following ...