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Mark Dresser, Matthias Ziegler and Denman Maroney: San Diego, February 4, 2011
by Robert Bush
Mark Dresser / Denman Maroney / Matthias ZieglerConrad Prebys Concert Hall, UCSDSan Diego, CAFebruary 4, 2011 Dresser, Maroney and Ziegler have a wealth of performing experience as a unit, although surprisingly, this was their first performance together since 2003. Held in the acoustically superb Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, this reunion (which brought Denman Maroney from New York and Matthias Ziegler from Switzerland) was first class all the way. The roots of ...
Continue ReadingMark Dresser Quintet Live at Dizzy's, San Diego
by Robert Bush
Mark Dresser QuintetDizzy'sSan Diego, CAOctober 10, 2010 Double bass virtuoso Mark Dresser is a player whose expertise in multiple genres defies categorization. His is the story of the student becoming the maestro. Growing up, he was inspired by rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix, and bassist/composer Charles Mingus, and he began his formal studies with a classical music education--soon with Nat Gangursky, a pupil of Herman Rheinshagen, the man who mentored Mingus.When it comes ...
Continue ReadingMark Dresser: Guts
by Robert Bush
Mark DresserGutsKadima Collective Recordings2010 He doesn't receive anywhere near the publicity given to his friend, and fellow bassist, William Parker, but make no mistake about it: Mark Dresser is a giant in the free jazz / new music continuum and has been so for years. Dresser has been keeping a still lower profile since moving from New York back to San Diego to work in academia at University of California at San ...
Continue ReadingMark Dresser & Denman Maroney: Live In Concert
by Nic Jones
Bassist Mark Dresser is a veteran of Anthony Braxton's quartet and Denman Maroney is the creator of the term “hyperpiano," used to distinguish his approach from that of other pianists using prepared techniques for piano. Those two factors alone say enough about where their music is coming from, which by default arguably places great emphasis on where they take it.
The program they conjure from out of the ether here covers a number of bases without losing either focus or ...
Continue ReadingMark Dresser / Ed Harkins / Steven Schick: House of Mirrors
by Stuart Broomer
House of Mirrors is a remarkable project in collaborative music making. It began in 1999 when bassist Mark Dresser expressed interest in supplying tones to complex rhythmic materials developed experimentally by the composer and trumpeter Ed Harkins. Eventually what began long-distance between the Brooklyn-based Dresser and the Californian Harkins became a regular interaction in 2004 when Dresser joined Harkins on the faculty of University of California at San Diego. A year later percussionist Steven Schick, who has recorded the complete ...
Continue ReadingMark Dresser: The Beautiful Enabler & Point of Contact
by Wilbur MacKenzie
MaugerThe Beautiful EnablerClean Feed2008 Bob and Ellen WellerPoint of ContactCircumvention Music2008 In the few years since his departure from daily life in New York, bassist Mark Dresser's activities have been very well documented. Two new discs feature him in trio format, one with East Coast musicians, including longtime partner drummer Gerry Hemingway, and the ...
Continue ReadingTiziano Tononi & Geo(metric)s: Strange Mathematics
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il Geo(metric)s di Tiziano Tononi è una formazione a geometria (leggermente) variabile: ha debuttato nel marzo 2000 come duo tra il batterista/percussionista milanese e il pianista Alberto Tacchini per le musiche del progetto audiovisivo (poi registrato su disco) La magia della luce. Negli anni seguenti s'è ampliato alla contrabbassista Silvia Bolognesi, in un ruolo che viene però condiviso con Mark Dresser. In questo lavoro (ripreso dal vivo il 5 giugno 2002 al Teatro alle Vigne di Lodi) il musicista statunitense ...
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