Jazz Articles about Jason Adasiewicz

Jason Adasiewicz's Sun Rooms: Spacer

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 21, 2012

Nelle mani di Adasiewicz il vibrafono sta conoscendo un'ulteriore rinascenza. Specie per la capacità del solista di utilizzare lo strumento sia in funzione ultra percussiva (vedi il lavoro nel gruppo Sound Is di Rob Mazurek) sia squisitamente melodica, jazzistica. Il trio Sun Rooms, qui alla seconda prova discografica dopo il primo disco omonimo, studia un possibile sviluppo di una certa musica legata agli anni Sessanta, realizzata in particolare dall'accoppiata Andrew Hill (compositore) e Bobby Hutcherson (solista). Una musica scura, molto ...

Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 26, 2011

C'era da aspettarselo un disco come Sun Rooms da Jason Adasiewicz. Dopo i lampi di classe balenati in Rolldown e Varmint, non serviva certo un Nostradamus per indovinare che il barbuto vibrafonista di Chicago avrebbe presto dato alle stampe la prova della maturità. Troppi gli indizi accumulati negli ultimi due-tre anni per potersi ingannare: la gloriosa militanza nel quintetto Sound Is e nell'Exploding Star Orchestra di Rob Mazurek, le comparsate al fianco di Josh Berman e Mike Reed, il moltiplicarsi ...

Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms

by Nic Jones
December 10, 2010

It's clear from Sun Rooms, perhaps more than from any of his previous efforts on record, that Jason Adasiewicz is offering something pretty personal. Sure, it's possible to name check both '60s-era Bobby Hutcherson and Walt Dickerson as points of reference, but they serve simply to highlight the fact that Adasiewicz is--for want of a better way of putting it--of a modern persuasion in both his composing and playing. Thus, for all the echoes of Andrew Hill ...

Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms

by Mark Corroto
September 28, 2010

Jason Adasiewicz is making the vibraphone a necessary ingredient for music making in this century. His mallets have been featured in recordings by Josh Berman, Jason Ajemian, Harris Eisenstadt, the Lucky 7s, and Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra.As a leader, his two recordings with Rolldown, the self-titled 2008 disc on 482 Music and Varmint (Cuneiform, 2009) feature Josh Berman, Aram Shelton, Jason Roebke, and Frank Rosaly playing his original compositions. Here, he pares things down to a simple ...

Jason Ajemian: Protest Heaven

by Mark Corroto
June 8, 2010

Bassist Jason Ajemian assembled a company of improvisers in December, 2006 at Heaven Gallery in Chicago as part of a music series he had been curating since 2002. The assemblage named Jason Ajemian's Daydream Full Lifestyles contained the infamous Chicago Underground players Rob Mazurek (trumpet), Chad Taylor (drums) and Jeff Parker (guitar), plus the well-traveled Tony Malaby (tenor saxophone), Ajemian's mentor from his university days.

The result is heard here in a limited edition 180g vinyl release (also ...

Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown: Varmint

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 4, 2010

Andrew Hill e l'Eric Dolphy di Out Lunch sono i poli d'attrazione di questo quintetto chicagoano, che cavalca l'onda della sperimentazione degli anni '60. Alla base c'è il tentativo di evitare i clichè del mainstream, finendo però con il riproporre quelli dell'estetica presa a modello. Varmint rappresenta un disco emblematico per riassumere pregi e difetti del jazz contemporaneo: impeccabile e solido, camaleontico e policentrico. Grande professionalità ed abilità tecnica, capace di generare curiosità e tensione emotiva nell'ascoltatore. In bilico tra ...

Jason Adasiewicz’s Rolldown: Varmint

by Nic Jones
February 21, 2010

Varmint is the second release from vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown, following its self-titled 2008 debut on 482 Music. It's clear, from this program, that Rolldown is not content to stay in one place; no mean feat, considering the extent to which this music pays homage to Blue Note's documentation of artists like Andrew Hill and Sam Rivers almost half a century ago.

The term homage is especially pertinent, as these performances don't merely flirt with the repertorial. Instead, they invoke ...