Jazz Articles about House Band

House Band: Swingd

by Dan McClenaghan
December 15, 2005

The House Band plays a slippery sound--understated, often amorphous, full of spontaneouly fluid momentums, like sounds created by a gently-gusting breeze interacting with...Interacting with what? It's hard to pin down. Interludes with the two drummers suggest the appealing chaos of a windchime, a disorder that forms itself into subtle patterns and loose structures, guided by a higher force.That force on Swingd is the House Band, an ensemble formerly known as the House Band of the Universe--a ...