Jazz Articles about Hanging Hearts

About Hanging Hearts

Album Review

From Minneapolis, the city that gave us The Bad Plus, here is another trio with a distinctive take on mixing jazz and rock. However Hanging Hearts serve up a sound that takes some of the jazz-rock ideas of the Seventies and amps them up into a louder, punkier present. The opening clash of harsh tenor sax and clanging electric piano on “Return Of Saturn" recalls the Elton Dean-Hugh Hopper era of The Soft Machine before it settles into ...

Album Review

Hanging Hearts: Into A Myth

Read "Into A Myth" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
May 19, 2017

Hanging Hearts pack quite a punch for a trio, a bass-less trio at that. Saxophonist Chris Weller takes the lead on “Return Of Saturn" with guttural tenor, after which an anthemic ensemble melody is established. There's a real sense of jazz rock here, but undoubtedly erring on the side of jazz. Cole DeGenova establishes a keyboard riff on the exuberant “Pilsen" before the band joins in accompanied by Dave King from the Bad Plus on tambourine. Notably, King also produced ...