Jazz Articles about Joe Fonda

Nu Band: Lower East Side Blues

by Robert Iannapollo
May 28, 2009

To those who thought The Nu Band was a one-shot group, witness Lower East Side Blues, its fourth album since 2003 and first recorded in a studio. With such busy schedules it seemed as if four musicians of this caliber--trumpeter Roy Campbell, alto saxophonist/ clarinetist Mark Whitecage, bassist Joe Fonda and drummer Lou Grassi--couldn't stay together very long. That they now have several international tours behind them and have a burgeoning discography is an indication of their level of commitment. ...

Joe Fonda: New York City Session & A Night in Paris (Live at the Sunset)

by Martin Longley
March 8, 2009

Bruno Angelini/Joe Fonda/Ramon LopezNew York City SessionSans Bruit2008 FAB TrioA Night In Paris / Live at the SunsetMarge2008 Here are two trio discs that reveal bassman Joe Fonda in highly contrasting circumstances. New York City Session is a repeat collaboration with French pianist Bruno Angelini and Spanish drummer Ramón López, recorded in Brooklyn. Even ...

Joe Fonda / Carlo Morena / George Schuller: A Drop Of Water

by Robert Iannapollo
November 11, 2008

The rhythm team of bassist Joe Fonda and drummer George Schuller has proven to be a particularly potent one. Their work as half of Conference Call (alongside reed player Gebhard Ullmann and pianist Michael Jefry Stevens) gives that band both compositional and improvisational strength. The same holds true in guitarist Michael Musillami's trio, where they take care of stoking the fires while Musillami takes off on his improvisational flights. A lesser-known group with a pair of records ...

Joe Fonda: Rhythmic Architect

by Paul Olson
May 19, 2008

Bassist Joe Fonda has nourished so many groups and projects with his unerring time, deep and constant imagination and rich tone that one struggles to imagine a New York jazz scene that doesn't include him. He's played as a sideman with dozens of great, prominent players (including Anthony Braxton, with whom he played in various musical combinations for 15 years) and has led, and still leads, a number of his own groups--none of them less than worth hearing, and most ...

Joe Fonda: Trio & Duets (1995)

by Kurt Gottschalk
September 8, 2007

Fonda/Stevens Group Trio Not Two 2007 Anthony Braxton/Joe Fonda Duets (1995) Konnex-Clean Feed 2007

It's difficult to either match or deny the hyperbole with which Leo Feigin presented the 2000 release of the Fonda/Stevens Group's Live at the Bunker. Calling it the recording he'd been waiting for for 20 years, Feigin ...

Joe Fonda: ZMF Trio & Angelini/Fonda/Lopez

by Marc Medwin
May 5, 2007

ZMF Trio Circle The Path Drip Audio 2006 Bruno Angelini/Joe Fonda/Ramon Lopez Silent Cascade Konnex 2006

These two recent trio releases find American bassist Joe Fonda refining his already diverse sonic palette; they present perfect environments in which to do so, as they are delightfully beyond category. Circle ...

Joe Fonda´s Bottoms Out: Loaded Basses

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 22, 2007

Conosciamo Joe Fonda come un infaticabile e possente contrabbassista, il cui lavoro è stato associato a nomi come Anthony Braxton e spesso ha fatto da sideman a formazioni operanti in USA ed in Europa (ad esempio, con Gebhard Ullmann). Questa volta in veste di leader ci presenta un progetto molto ambizioso che, grazie all'impegno del tecnico del suono e dei musicisti, è riuscito nel migliore dei modi. I molti strumenti che operano su toni bassi sono messi insieme con cura ...