Jazz Articles about Gregg August

About Gregg August

Album Review

Alchemy Sound Project: Under the Surface

Read "Under the Surface" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
July 9, 2026

Formazione dall'identità mutevole, Alchemy Sound Project era già stata autrice di eccellenti lavori, tra i quali Further Explorations, uscito una decina di anni fa. Questa sua ultima fatica presenta tutta musica della pianista Sumi Tonooka, eseguita da un settetto o, in due brani, dal trio pianistico che ne costituisce il cuore. Ed è il trio ad aprire il lavoro, con il brano non casualmente intitolato “Point of Departure," dove la pianista è affiancata dal contrabbassista Gregg ...

Album Review

New York Bass Quartet: Air

by Pierre Giroux
February 25, 2022

Bassist Martin Wind is the real deal. Although he may not have the profile enjoyed by some of the bold-faced names in the profession such as Christian McBride, Ron Carter or Esperanza Spalding, he has built his reputation as a skilled, versatile player since emigrating to the US in 1995 to study at the NYU jazz program. While Wind's discography is not lengthy, he has done some commendable work with Bill Mays and Frank Kimbrough. This release Air puts the ...

Radio & Podcasts

Gregg August, Sandy Evans, & Phelan Burgoyne

by Maurice Hogue
November 3, 2021

Catching up this time out on a couple of great releases that I've been a little tardy in playing: bassist Gregg August's important Dialogues On Race Vol. 1 and Aussie saxophone powerhouse Sandy Evans' Postcards From The Anthropocene . The late drummer Paul Motian wrote lots of tunes and English drummer Phelan Burgoyne has collected a number of the previously unrecorded songs on his new Yazgol. Also from England are the historical free jazz quartet, Mujician, and Fred Frith Trio ...

Album Review

Joel Harrison: America at War

Read "America at War" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
July 12, 2021

"È tutta la vita che il mio paese conduce tragiche e futili invasioni straniere. Ho sentito che dovevo scrivere su questo fatto, infondere nella mia nuova musica la sua dolorosa eredità." Queste riflessioni aprono il nuovo disco di Joel Harrison, ritornato a sette anni di distanza da Infinite Possibility a guidare un ensemble orchestrale. La storia bellica degli Stati Uniti è piuttosto lunga: in 245 anni ha combattuto 123 conflitti militari vivendo solo 18 anni in completa pace. ...

Album Review

David Bixler: Inside the Grief

Read "Inside the Grief" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
February 2, 2021

Following his 2019 nonet offering, Blended Lineage (Red Piano), alto-saxophonist David Bixler, no stranger to the stress and strains of our collectively jagged, irregular days, sets out heroically to make sense of it all on Inside the Grief. And make sense of it all he does with six probing, conversational originals that manage to restore some balance of life and light into many of today's darkest recesses. Stripping it all down to a trio format, Bixler, bassist Gregg August and ...

Radio & Podcasts

Gregg August: How To Have That Difficult Conversation

by David Bixler
January 3, 2021

Composer and Bassist Gregg August's Dialogues on Race was composed 10 years ago and was inspired by the election of Barack Obama combined with his discovery of the compelling story of Emmett Till. Now, a decade later a decision to step beyond the safety of the music was motivation to record it with the intention of facilitating a conversation on this sometimes awkward, sometimes difficult, yet vital discussion about race. This episode features music from Gregg August's GRAMMY-nominated ...

Album Review

JD Allen: Americana

Read "Americana" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
November 7, 2016

Con questa profonda, austera e appassionata indagine sul blues, JD Allen intende ribadire la sua centralità nell'ambito della musica statunitense (“il blues è la porta d'ingresso -dice nelle note -per il passato e il futuro della musica americana; la fonte da cui gospel, jazz, rock, country, rhythm & blues e hip hop sono formulati. Lo spirito del blues, sia esso sottile o esplicito, riesce a manifestarsi in ogni genere di musica americana"). Non è una questione secondaria e ...