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Mark Dresser - Ed Harkins - Steven Schick: House of Mirrors
by AAJ Italy Staff
Pensato inizialmente come un duo tra Mark Dresser e Ed Harkins, il progetto House of Mirrors è stato poi realizzato in trio con l’aggiunta del percussionista Steven Schick. Scelta quanto mai vincente perché il frullare delle percussioni, le macchie timbriche, il pulviscolo ritmico di Schick tolgono la registrazione dalle secche di un jazz eccessivamente cameristico. Pur avendo come riferimento la musica contemporanea e musicisti come Iannis Xenakis e Roger Reynolds, per citare due esponenti particolarmente amati da Harkins e Schick, ...
Continue ReadingMark Dresser: Telematics
by AAJ Staff
By Mark Dresser My sense of 'community' radically changed in 1998 while I was on tour in Europe. During a break after a soundcheck, I checked my email to read the devastating communication that beloved saxophonist Thomas Chapin was being taken off of life support. At that moment I was mentally transported from the locality of the club and connected to a larger group of family and friends of Thomas who were all experiencing the sad cognizance of ...
Continue ReadingThe Roswell Rudd / Mark Dresser Duo at UMass, Amherst
by Lyn Horton
Roswell Rudd / Mark Dresser Duo Solos & Duos SeriesBesanzon Recital HallUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts October 17, 2007
A few years ago, bassist Mark Dresser proposed to trombonist Roswell Rudd that they work together. On their first recording as a duo, Airwalkers (Clean Feed, 2006), Rudd and Dresser spontaneously improvised a piece that they called “Duality. Apart from the dedication of the work, as the liner notes state, to the late ...
Continue ReadingBilly Fox: The Uncle Wiggly Suite
by AAJ Italy Staff
«It began with a dream» racconta il percussionista-compositore Billy Fox nelle note che accompagnano questo sorprendente esordio targato, ancora una volta, Clean Feed. Un sogno intravisto e catturato in quegli attimi senza tempo che separano il sonno dalla veglia, la coscienza dall’incoscienza. È in una zona non meglio precisata di quel confine assai labile che sono affiorate le linee guida di questa suite in dieci movimenti intitolata al coniglietto Uncle Wiggly, un personaggio famoso di libri per ragazzi. Ce ne ...
Continue ReadingMark Dresser/Denman Maroney: Time Changes
by Brian P. Lonergan
Listening to bassist Mark Dresser and pianist Denman Maroney's Time Changes is often like being in a car with someone trying to learn stick shift--smooth coasting is interrupted by sudden lurches, premature downshifts, or unexpected accelerations. To the musicians' credit, though, the music never stalls. By creating tension with so many rhythmically off-kilter sections, the passages where the music settles into a swinging groove come as a surprising relief.The title should be taken literally. These complex arrangements by ...
Continue ReadingMark Dresser/Ray Anderson: Nine Songs Together
by Kurt Gottschalk
Despite a long association, bassist Mark Dresser and trombonist Ray Anderson make an unusual pair. The quintessentially New York Dresser is known for his deep, soul-stirring improvisations (his suite “The Five Outer Planets” here hints at his enormity of scale); Anderson, despite being born in Chicago and an early tenure in Anthony Braxton’s quartet, is more a southern boy with a love for New Orleans jazz. The pair began playing as a duo nearly thirty years ago, however, and Dresser ...
Continue ReadingMark Dresser & Ray Anderson: Nine Songs Together
by Derek Taylor
As an educator, Anthony Braxton is easily on par with such luminaries as Captain Walter Dyett and Art Blakey. Near innumerable students have passed through his classes at Wesleyan and/or benefited from the musical incubators that are his bands. Among their number are Messieurs Dresser and Anderson. Both men have built careers from their early associations with Braxton. Both have long since found their own directions and become their former employer’s peers.
Their CIMP meeting substituted in ...
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