Jazz Articles about Jason Robinson

Anthony Davis - Jason Robinson: Cerulean Landscape

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 11, 2011

Sia benedetto Cerulean Landscape! Da troppo tempo Anthony Davis marcava visita. Non che il nostro fosse finito in naftalina: tra opere, sinfonie, cattedre e concerti [vedasi quello del 2009 a Botticino], il baffuto pianista si è dato un gran da fare negli ultimi anni. E però era da un bel pezzo [se i calcoli sono esatti, addirittura dal 1990, ovvero dai due volumi di Trio] che non capitava di vedere il suo nome sulla copertina di un disco, al di ...

Jason Robinson: Cerberus Reigning

by Mark F. Turner
December 15, 2010

Legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius' classic “3 Views of a Secret" could adequately describe saxophonist Jason Robinson's three incredibly distinct recordings. Concurrent 2010 releases include The Two Faces of Janus (Cuneiform), with a tremendous ensemble featuring Drew Gress, Liberty Ellman, George Schuller, Marty Ehrlich and Rudresh Mahanthappa; and the more intimate, but equally daring duo collaboration, Cerulean Landscape (Clean Feed), with pianist Anthony Davis. The final piece to the trifecta, Cerberus Reigning , is an electro-acoustic solo project, with Robinson's saxophones ...

Jason Robinson / Anthony Davis: Cerulean Landscape

by Troy Collins
November 25, 2010

"If Ellington were to collaborate with science fiction author Samuel R. Delany, one might encounter a cerulean landscape." This evocative quote from the liner notes to Cerulean Landscape, multi-reedist Jason Robinson's long-awaited duo album with legendary pianist Anthony Davis, paints a vivid picture of their mutual admiration for the work of Duke Ellington and his colorful interpretations of the blues--in all its forms.Robinson has been performing live with Davis (his former professor) since 1998, subsequently recording their first ...

Jason Robinson: The Two Faces of Janus

by Troy Collins
October 25, 2010

Currently serving as Assistant Professor of Music at Amherst College in Massachusetts, multi-reedist Jason Robinson originally obtained his Ph.D. in music from the University of California. A promising new arrival to the East Coast scene, Robinson's academic background imbues his episodic writing with an organically cohesive sensibility, while his years spent co-leading the longstanding bicoastal ensembles Cosmologic and the Cross Border Trio lend his focused improvisations a warm, economical lyricism.The Two Faces of Janus, Robinson's Cuneiform Records debut ...

Jason Robinson: The New Western

by Gordon Marshall
October 25, 2010

Saxophonist Jason Robinson is alert and ready to work his place in the scheme of things, from jazz itself to music at large, to the existential particulars of philosophy. A supple technician with a penchant for abstract thought, he splices together different strains of theory and logic with combinatory takes on period, school and style. A deeply ingrained reverence and sense for jazz history comes out in his carefully calibrated, often composed body of multivalent, multicolored music. Equally informed by ...

Jason Robinson: Cerberus Rising

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 28, 2009

Il californiano Jason Robinson, membro del quartetto Cosmologic e collaboratore di musicisti dell'area creativa quali Anthony Davis, George Lewis, Eugene Chadbourne, Roger Turner e tanti altri, incide dal 1998 soprattutto per la sua etichetta, la Circumvention Music. Al suo quarto CD da leader ha deciso di segnare una tappa impegnativa nella sua ricerca personale, producendo un lavoro solitario, interamente acustico, per sax tenore: impresa coraggiosa, ma inevitabilmente rischiosa. In Cerberus Rising, primo di una prevista trilogia, egli intende proseguire sulle ...

Jason Robinson: Eyes In The Back Of My Head & Fingerprint

by Fred Bouchard
February 7, 2009

Cosmologic Eyes in the Back of My Head Cuneiform 2008 Jason Robinson Fingerprint Circumvention Music 2008

Over the past decade, street-savvy, hard-hitting urban quartet Cosmologic has built its high-impact, low-comfort-zone approach to groupwork that recalls Anthony Braxton's small-band intelligence and The Fringe's raw energy. The California-based band enjoys bumpy textures, aggressive ...