Jazz Articles about Joe Fonda

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Joe Fonda: Live at the Outpost Performance Space & Live at the Iron Works

by Kurt Gottschalk
July 15, 2006

Conference Call Live at the Outpost Peformance Space 482 Music 2006 Fab Trio Live at Iron Works, Vancouver, BC Konnex 2005

Although the Fonda-Stevens group is a strong band, bassist Joe Fonda is best known as a sideman. His first recording was with Wadada Leo Smith in 1983 and he spent ...

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Fonda/Altschul/Bang: Live At The Iron Works, Vancouver

by Nic Jones
April 27, 2006

There aren't too many violin/bass/drums trios out there, and while the live setting might not be the ideal format in which to capture the music of this particular threesome, there's enough here to provoke the hope that this isn't just a one-off venture.

The moments when the trio thinks as one, notably after Altschul's four-minute solo introduction on “Tune For Barry," are countered in the negative sense by the music's longueurs, where at least one of the participants gives the ...