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Stephen Gauci / Shinya Lin / Adam Lane / Kevin Shea: Live At Scholes Street Studio
by John Sharpe
NYC tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci has adopted the self-determination ethos with a vengeance. So prolific is he that his new recordings can seem like monthly updates. This set from December 2022 presents a working unit in a familiar haunt and under a familiar banner: Live At Scholes Street Studio. With so many releases having the same title, the individual albums are best differentiated by personnel. This time out the new face is pianist Shinya Lin who proves himself an empathetic ...
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by John Sharpe
Tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci cuts a busy figure in his native New York City. But with Live At Sowieso, Berlin he brings his brand of unbridled energy to the hotbed of free improv which is the titular German city with striking results. He retains one familiar face for the journey in the shape of drummer Kevin Shea, a longstanding member of the reedman's trio, who is still best known for his tenure in the anarchic Mostly Other People Do The ...
Continue ReadingMostly Other People Do the Killing: Disasters Vol. 1
by Mike Jurkovic
Rest assured, Mostly Other People Do the Killing get the joke and on Disasters Vol.1, the amorphous collective's eleventh disc and this trio's riotous second, you either get the joke too or you don't. It really makes no never-mind to this eclectic bunch because MOPDtK know instinctively that, if you don't throw yourself off balance from time to time, (like every single time the opportunity presents itself) you're going to get deeply sucked into the muck and mire of human ...
Continue ReadingGauci Ewen Lane Shea: Studio Sessions Vol.5
by Alberto Bazzurro
Inciso tre mesi prima (novembre 2018) del Vol. 4, di cui ci siamo occupati di recente, questo nuovo capitolo della saga free impro capitanata (anche nel ruolo di produttore) da Stephen Gauci, sax tenore, in quartetto con partners tutti diversi, evidenzia una maggiore capacità di gestire gli spazi improvvisativi (quindi l'aleatorietà, che qui segue itinerari più felicemente calibrati e articolati sul piano delle dinamiche), generando conseguentemente una musica più introitabile da parte di chi ascolta, che ne può cogliere e ...
Continue ReadingMostly Other People Do the Killing: Disasters Vol. 1
by Karl Ackermann
Mostly Other People Do the Killing has a way of making great music sound accidental. So Disasters Vol. 1 is as suitable a name for this collection as it would be for any of their fourteen albums. In past versions, they have boasted big names such as Jon Irabagon, Peter Evans, and rising talents like guitarist Brandon Seabrook. Drummer Kevin Shea and bassist/composer Moppa Elliot, are two-thirds of the current group and the remaining original members of MOPDtK. Ron Stabinsky ...
Continue ReadingMostly Other People Do The Killing: Disasters Vol. 1
by Jerome Wilson
Moppa Elliott's gonzo-surrealist jazz group, Mostly Other People Do The Killing, returns for a second album in its piano trio format with Elliott on bass, Ron Stabinsky on piano and Kevin Shea on drums. They are up to their usual tricks here, playing slapstick jazz which flits deliriously through all types of styles and sub-genres like an old Warner Brothers cartoon soundtrack. However there is a more serious added element on this album. Elliott, as he often does, named all ...
Continue ReadingStephen Gauci / Eli Wallace / Kevin Shea: Live At The Bushwick Series!
by John Sharpe
Tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci presents another bulletin from the front line of the Brooklyn underground on Live At The Bushwick Series! Literally so when considering the windowless basement room in the Bushwick Public House where this performance was recorded in November 2019. Alongside Gauci sits the regular drummer from his trio/quartet Kevin Shea, best known for his tenure with Mostly Other People Do The Killing, and keyboardist Eli Wallace, a 2015 transplant from Oakland, California, who has worked with Daniel ...
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