Jazz Articles about Jim Pugliese

Jim Pugliese: Live @ Issue Project Room NYC

by Francis Lo Kee
March 18, 2009

In the tradition of raucously creative Downtown NYC jazz-rock bands like Curlew and Naked City, Jim Pugliese's Phase III burns with passion that is both musical and conceptually bold and is a great working band, not just a thrown-together collection of accomplished soloists. Yet these are not mere AABA compositions nor are they played to display a pristine sense of melody: they thrash and kick about like kids having fun in a playground, yet with an adult's deep connection and ...