Jazz Articles about Greg Ward

About Greg Ward

Album Review

Living by Lanterns: New Myth/Old Science

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 12, 2012

L'ensemble Living by Lanterns riunisce, attorno alle figure leader di Mike Reed e Jason Adasiewicz, un manipolo di rappresentanti della più effervescente scena delle città guida nell'attuale panorama improvvisativo statunitense, vale adire New York e Chicago. Il progetto nasce attorno ad un'idea tanto affascinante quanto rischiosa riferendosi ad un personaggio unico e decisamente poco esportabile come Sun Ra. La fonte è un nastro etichettato “NY 1961" proveniente dal Sun Ra/El Saturn Audio Collection, sconfinato archivio di oltre settecento ore di ...

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Greg Ward: Phonic Juggernaut

Read "Phonic Juggernaut" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
October 31, 2011

Greg Ward's trio Phonic Juggernaut can be loud, it also can be fast, but it can never be described as out of control. The twenty-something saxophonist's take on the modern jazz sax/bass/drums lineup adheres to the traditions of jazz, not as a regressive act but as a forward-thinking, innovative sound. This Chicagoan-turned-New Yorker can be heard with drummer Charles Rumback and in Mike Reed's People, Places, and Things, as well as with the electronic outfit Prefuse 73. His ...

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Greg Ward's Fitted Shards: South Side Story

Read "South Side Story" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 17, 2010

South Side Story dovrebbe essere nelle intenzioni dell'autore la sintesi più significativa della sua storia musicale. Che ha attraversato gli ambienti più disparati, dall'avanguardia di Chicago, al jazz platinato di Al Jarreau, dalle collaborazioni con uno storico interprete come Von Freeman agli esperimenti elettronici di Prefuse 73 per citarne alcuni. Fitted Shards sono i frammenti delle molteplici esperienze musicali che Greg Ward ha riunito e incollato insieme con l'intento di dar vita, non a un semplice collage, a un patchwork ...

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Album Review

Greg Ward's Fitted Shards: South Side Story

Read "South Side Story" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 20, 2010

Saxophonist Greg Ward's moderately esoteric spin on jazz signals an artist who has traversed diverse paths, including stints with electronica artist Prefuse 73, and stalwarts of progressive jazz, such as drummer Hamid Drake and saxophonist Von Freeman. Here, Ward compiles a textural and hard-hitting modus operandi, largely evidenced on “Step Forward." This piece is dabbled with metal-jazz overtures, spiced by the saxophonist and keyboardist Rob Clearfield's brute force attack.Clearfield multitasks via crunching synth sounds and fluid electric piano ...