Jazz Articles about Joe Moffett

About Joe Moffett

Album Review

When we think about a recording, we rarely consider its tactile qualities. We hear pulse, rhythm and momentum, the obvious physicality of sound. A rave, for example, can be experienced as much through the body as through the ears, its bass frequencies vibrating through bone and muscle. But the trio Earth Tongues approaches physicality from the opposite direction. On Phases, trumpeter Joe Moffett, tubist Dan Peck and percussionist Carlo Costa concern themselves not with overwhelming force but with minute sensation. ...

Album Review

Joe Moffett's Ad Faunum: Ad Faunum

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 7, 2012

Sta sviluppandosi tra Brooklyn e Boston una nidiata di giovani improvvisatori che si ispirano in maniera particolare al lavoro di Joe Maneri, il geniale saxofonista scomparso alcuni anni fa. Ne fanno certamente parte musicisti come il trombettista Joe Moffett, il saxofonista Noah Kaplan, i bassisti Giacomo Merega e Jacob William e per finire il batterista Luther Gray. Senza dimenticare il più maturo chitarrista e bassista Joe Morris che non suona in questo album ma che di sicuro ha dato uno ...