Jazz Articles about Joe Giardullo

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Joe Giardullo: Language Of Swans

by Richton Guy Thomas
February 13, 2003

Language Of Swans represents multi instrumentalist/composer Joe Giardullo's second release on Drimala Records. The first, Shadow And Light, was made with Joe McPhee on September 11, 2001.

Language of Swans has a very different feel than the sheer intensity of Giardullo's first disc. It offers an opportunity to hear Joe Giardullo’s whole musical world, with his atonal palette spanning a range of soaring, beautiful, complex, shearing notes.

The opening tune, “Rivers,” is reminiscent of an early ...

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Joe Giardullo and Sangeeta Michael Berardi: Art Spirit

by Dan McClenaghan
January 9, 2003

Don Heckman, writing for the Los Angeles Times a couple of weeks back, called 2002 “a year of exhale in jazz, a period of relatively low energy."Humbug! He must be listening to major labels. If he checked out Pi Recordings (Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet's The Year of the Elephant and Fieldwork's Your Life Flashes ); Accurate Records (Either Orchestra's Afro-Cubism ); or Louie Records (Rich Halley's Objects and The Tone Sharks' Intention ), he might just change ...

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Joe Giardullo: Language Of Swans

by Mark Corroto
December 1, 2002

Musicians commonly use certain tricks to demand your attention: they make noise, play powerfully, and exhibit plenty of showmanship. No so for saxophonist Joe Giardullo. His career (till now) has been one away from the spotlight, and therefore beyond popular attention. He has toiled (as an equal partner) in differing bands under Joe McPhee’s name, to some critical acclaim. This year’s two releases have changed his circumstances. Shadow And Light (released earlier this year) and now Language Of Swans are ...

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Giardullo/McPhee/Bisio/Tabbal: Shadow & Light

by Mark Corroto
June 2, 2002

The session Joe Giardullo planned for September 11, 2001 never happened. As the musicians assembled about 100 miles from the horrible destruction in New York, they contemplated scrubbing the recording. Giardullo had planned to model this recording after Dave Holland’s Conference Of Birds (ECM 1972) record with Barry Altschul, Sam Rivers and Anthony Braxton. The day and the mood called for something else.

Preconcieved notions set aside, the music was purely improvised and affected by that somber day. ...