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Josh Sinton's Predicate Trio: Making Bones, Taking Draughts, Bearing Unstable Millstones Pridefully, Idiotically, Prosaically
by Jerome Wilson
Josh Sinton is a member of the Brooklyn jazz community who has been making a name for himself with his baritone sax, playing in contexts like his Steve Lacy repertoire band, Ideal Bread. His free-wheeling Predicate Trio with cellist Christopher Hoffman and drummer Tom Rainey is a combustible unit that showcases his more improvisational side. Seven of the nine tracks here are written by Sinton and feel like old-school, fire-breathing free jazz. “Bell-ell-ell-ell-ells" establishes the loosely aggressive nature ...
Continue ReadingJosh Sinton's Predicate Trio: Making Bones, Taking Draughts, Bearing Unstable Millstones Pridefully, Idiotically, Prosaically
by Mark Corroto
Considerate isn't an adjective you generally apply to creative new jazz recordings these days. Vanguard musicians are accustomed to employing the shock and awe required to get attention and satisfy their constituents. Maybe that is why Making Bones, Taking Draughts, Bearing Unstable Millstones Pridefully, Idiotically, Prosaically is such a breath of fresh air. Josh Sinton's Predicate Trio delivers an exceedingly empathic recording. Sinton is a veteran of Darcy James Argue's Secret Society Large Ensemble, Nate Wooley's Quintet, Anthony ...
Continue ReadingMusicianer: Slow Learner
by John Sharpe
With Musicianer reedman Josh Sinton adroitly shows how to combine the abstract and the earthy. It helps that he has enlisted long time associates drummer Chad Taylor and bassist Jason Ajemian to realize the eleven compositions on the group's debut Slow Learner. Taylor, who first garnered international attention in the Chicago Underground Duo (etc) with cornetist Rob Mazurek, confirms why he has become an in demand accomplice since moving to New York, while Windy City denizen Ajemian has also entered ...
Continue ReadingIdeal Bread: Transmit: Vol. 2 of The Music of Steve Lacy
by Troy Collins
Baritone saxophonist Josh Sinton graduated from pupil to sideman following his studies with Steve Lacy at the New England Conservatory, performing with the late soprano saxophone legend and serving as his copyist. After Lacy's passing in 2004, Sinton founded Ideal Bread as a repertory group in his honor, dedicated to performing his former teacher's rarely covered compositions. Transmit is the sophomore follow up to Ideal Bread's self-titled debut, a limited edition CD-R released in 2008 on the KBM label. Drawing ...
Continue ReadingHo-lus Bo-lus: Altogether...All at Once
by Elliott Simon
Baritone saxophonist Josh Sinton's quintet Holus-Bolus, boasting two drummers and an upright bass in addition to alto/soprano saxophonist Jeremy Udden, certainly does not lack a solid instrumental bottom. Brooklyn-based, the members also share a lineage that connects to the stellar jazz program at Boston's New England Conservatory with an umbilicus to soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy. Both horn men did stints with the Either Orchestra, and while Altogether...All At Once, a title that defines the band's moniker, shares that larger ensemble's ...
Continue ReadingTake Five With Josh Sinton
by AAJ Staff
Meet Josh Sinton: Born in western Massachusetts but raised in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, Josh Sinton began playing music in the third grade, starting on piano, trombone and clarinet. He finally convinced his parents to get him an alto saxophone in high school. However,it wasn't until he was twenty-five that he finally came to his senses and acquired a baritone saxophone and bass clarinet.He studied composition and ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago and then took ...
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