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Nate Wooley: Columbia Icefield

Read "Columbia Icefield" reviewed by Don Phipps

by Don Phipps
March 11, 2019

Nate Wooley's Columbia Icefield begins with a dueling repetition of chords by bandmates Mary Halvorson and Susan Alcorn on “Lionel Trilling." The ambiguity generated by this back and forth is the perfect start to his album's shape-shifting music. Wooley's trumpet is both poetic and piercing. There's a sense of longing in his tone and it is amplified by his use of odd electronics which add texture and distortions to his lines or simply populate the background. Halvorson's twangs ...

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Nate Wooley: Knknighgh Minimal Poetry (for Aram Saroyan)

Read "Knknighgh Minimal Poetry (for Aram Saroyan)" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
May 21, 2018

Il multiforme talento di Nate Wooley aggiunge una tessera significativa alla propria generosa produzione discografica, pubblicata in buona parte dall'etichetta Clean Feed. In scena è un quartetto che già nell'organico evoca il free storico, allineando tromba, sax alto, contrabbasso e batteria. In effetti, il CD esordisce con un richiamo al quartetto di Ornette, con delle cellule tematiche scattanti, in cui gli strumenti tracciano linee difformi che vanno a convergere in alcuni arresti repentini. Un'alternanza acrobatica tra esplosioni e silenzi che ...

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Nate Wooley: The Complete Syllables Music

Read "The Complete Syllables Music" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
April 4, 2017

The late Kenneth Gaburo was a noted academic, writer, jazz pianist, electronic music innovator and more. In the 1980s, he headed the Experimental Music Studio at the University of Iowa where he taught that the individual is free to create their own language in terms of their approach to music composition. Gaburo is the inspiration for trumpeter Nate Wooley's latest experimental collection, The Complete Syllables Music.This ambitious four-disc collection adds to Wooley's revolutionary solo repertoire, which includes Trumpet/Amplifier ...

Year in Review

Karl Ackermann's Best Releases of 2016

by Karl Ackermann
December 8, 2016

2016 has proven that jazz and creative music in general, are healthier than ever. Artists like Steve Lehman, Nate Wooley and Vijay Iyer continue to push the envelope while those like Bob Gluck find ways to make the old, very new. This list is--for the most part--outside the mainstream because that is where artists risk the most to tell their stories; it is where many listeners go to be challenged. Nate Wooley Seven Storey Mountain V ...

Album Review

Nate Wooley: Argonautica

Read "Argonautica" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
November 14, 2016

Argonautica reveals a subtle new facet in Nate Wooley's eclectic discography. A celebrated leader of the new trumpet scene, Wooley has expanded the instrument's language by incorporating innovative extended techniques into his bold improvisations. Most of his work has fallen under the banner of lower-case improv, noise or advanced post-bop, but little of his prior output has found commonality within the realm of fusion--until now.Comprised of a single 43-minute composition, “Argonautica" is realized by a somewhat unconventional ensemble. ...

Album Review

Nate Wooley/Hugo Antunes/Jorge Queijo/Mário Costa/Chris Corsano: Purple Patio

Read "Purple Patio" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
October 1, 2016

From the perspective of release dates Purple Patio can be seen as a follow up to Malus (NoBusiness Records, 2014) by the core trio of trumpeter Nate Wooley, Belgium-based Portuguese bassist Hugo Antunes and celebrated drummer Chris Corsano. But in actual fact the limited edition LP was recorded two weeks previously, presumably during the same tour. Where it differs is through the inclusion of two of the bassist's fellow countrymen in drummers in Jorge Queijo and Mario Costa. Unsurprisingly a ...

Album Review

Nate Wooley/Hugo Antunes/Jorge Queijo/Mário Costa/Chris Corsano: Purple Patio

Read "Purple Patio" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 27, 2016

If I had to do it all over again, I would not have judged Purple Patio as soon as I dropped the needle onto the LP. Yes, this is a vinyl-only release, and yes, it is only an edition of 300 copies. Instead, I should have listened to both sides all the way through. But that would have required getting up to turn over the disc. So, I just luxuriated in the first track of the first side. ...