Jazz Articles about Harry Skoler

Harry Skoler: Red Brick Hill

by Angelo Leonardi
November 15, 2024

Metodo catartico. Con questa tecnica, ideata da Freud e Breuer nelle prime fasi della psicoanalisi, si aiutavano i pazienti ad affrontare i postumi di un trauma. Da allora gli psicoterapeuti hanno perfezionato i loro metodi ma fuori dagli studi professionali anche l'arte s'è rivelata un mezzo per affrontare le ferite della psiche. Ad esempio con l'opportunità di elaborare un lutto in forma simbolica. Il nuovo disco di Harry Skoler sembra porsi in questa prospettiva e l'autore lo presenta ...

New Music from Clarinetist Harry Skoler, Monika Herzog and Sheroes, and Saxophonist Willie Morris

by Hobart Taylor
July 17, 2024

This week's program highlights a remarkable release from clarinetist, Harry Skoler, (Red Brick Hill), featuring vibraphonist, Joel Ross, bassist, Derzon Douglas, and drummer, Johnathan Blake. Playlist m: Tone Forest “The Mother Tree" from Tone Forest (Outside In) 0:00 Bria Skonberg “Petit Fleur" from What It Means (Cellar) 10:54 Alex Sipiagin “When Is It Now" from Horizons (Blue Room Music) 15:26 Host Speaks 21:30 Jihye Lee Orchestra “Surrender (feat. Ambrose Akinmusire)" from Infinite Connections (Motema) 23:00 Markus Howell “Eye ...

Harry Skoler: Living in Sound - The Music of Charles Mingus

by Angelo Leonardi
February 23, 2023

Tra i vari tributi alle composizioni di Charles Mingus, pubblicati nell'anno del centenario della nascita, questo di Harry Skoler conferma la plasticità di quei temi, articolati e mutevoli, frutto della sua complessa personalità. L'autore e primo solista di questo progetto è un clarinettista--già allievo di Jimmy Giuffre al New England Conservatory e da anni professore al Berklee College--la cui vita è stata radicalmente influenzata dalla passione per l'opera di Mingus. In collaborazione col sassofonista ...

Harry Skoler: Two Ones

by Dan Bilawsky
February 18, 2010

Two Ones--the title of clarinetist Harry Skoler's fourth CD--clearly alludes to the musical rapport between Skoler and vibraphonist/pianist Ed Saindon, in addition to referencing the way the album is divided into quintet and duo recordings. Skoler and Saindon have been working together for more than fifteen years and have developed a deep musical connection during that time. This album is a faculty-friend affair, with all five musicians on this date being faculty members at the Berklee College of Music, and ...

Harry Skoler: A Work of Heart

by AAJ Staff
January 22, 2003

On his 1999 album A Work of Heart clarinetist/composer Harry Skoler opens his repertoire and his orchestral possibilities as wide as his heart, letting in new people and new ideas. In addition to his trusted rhythm section of bassist Richard Kimball and drummer Tim Gilmore, Harry adds the formidable talents of neighborhood fret-master Garrison Fewell and pianist/arranger/producer Donn Trenner--who has also worked with other reed masters like Stan Getz and Charlie Parker, as well as Tommy Dorsey, Lena Horne and ...

Harry Skoler: A Work of Heart

by Matthew S. Robinson
August 1, 2001

On his latest album, clarinetist/composer Harry Skoler opens his repertoire and his orchestral possibilities as wide as his heart, letting in new people and new ideas. In addition to his trusted rhythm section of bassist Richard Kimball and drummer Tim Gilmore, Harry adds the formidable talents of neighborhood fret-master Garrison Fewell and pianist/arranger/producer Donn Trenner, who has also worked with other reed masters like Stan Getz and Charlie Parker, as well as Tommy Dorsey, Lena Horne and Skoler’s label-mate Paul ...

Harry Skoler: A Work of Heart

by Mike Neely
August 1, 2000

Throughout A Work of Heart clarinetist Harry Skoler displays an intimate, chamber swing sensibility that sings above a finely meshed group of musicians. Skoler is not interested in pyrotechnics; he is interested in the emotional nuances of ten carefully chosen compositions.

On five of the tracks Donn Trenner has arranged strings tastefully and affectively. He is also the pianist throughout whose solos and sensitive accompaniment to Skoler contribute significantly to the success of this recording. The guitarists, Garrison Fewell and ...