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Transit: Quadrologues & Nate Wooley: The Seven Storey Mountain
by Clifford Allen
The work of trumpeter Nate Wooley falls into a number of camps: free improvisation, experimental noise or restructuralist post-bop. It would be easy to lump him in with a young trumpeters/ extended techniques setting but Wooley is decidedly an individual. And while brass players tend to elicit an expected bravura, Wooley is very much at home in collective exploratory endeavors as one color in a very broad palette.Transit is one of the first outfits that Wooley began working ...
Continue ReadingNate Wooley - Fred Lonberg-Holm - Jason Roebke: Throw Down Your Hammer and Sing
by AAJ Italy Staff
La splendida foto di un edificio diroccato nello scenario di Salton Sea che compare sulla copertina di questo Throw Down Your Hammer and Sing è l'immagine giusta per introdurre alla musica di questo altrettanto splendido trio composto dal trombettista Nate Wooley con il violoncello e l'elettronica di Fred Lonberg-Holm e il contrabbasso di Jason Roebke. È infatti il linguaggio improvvisativo stesso a essere smontato, sminuzzato, smembrato, polverizzato, per dare vita a un paesaggio sonoro di straniante bellezza, nelle strutture pericolanti ...
Continue ReadingNate Wooley: Throw Down Your Hammer and Sing and Crackleknob
by Clifford Allen
Two recent discs featuring trumpeter-composer Nate Wooley explore improvisational language through non-traditional approaches, both collective and solo. Some of that expansion includes electronics and electro-acoustic blur, such as on Throw Down Your Hammer and Sing (joining Wooley with cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and bassist Jason Roebke). Unisons and parallels also factor in both of these drummerless trios, as do elements of contemporary “noise" music and effortless swing. Sans electro-acoustic extension, Crackleknob focuses more on extended phrases and fractured interplay. It's the ...
Continue ReadingNate Wooley / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Jason Roebke: Throw Down Your Hammer And Sing
by Lyn Horton
Seemingly the most complicated music is really the most simple; complexity might stem only from the mindful choices the performers make when they play. Yet, when the vocabulary of each performer is so well attuned to the possibilities of an unusual instrumental setting, then the choices for improvising, even though they might sound oddly pressured, are instinctual. What the musicians give each other musically and how each responds, generates the music.
This concept holds true on Throw Down Your Hammer ...
Continue ReadingNate Wooley: Doin' It All All For My Baby & Nididhyasana
by Martin Longley
Evil Eye Doin' It All For My Baby KMB Jazz 2007 Steve Gauci Nididhyasana Clean Feed Records 2007
New Jersey resident Nate Wooley contributes a major trumpeting voice to this pair of quartet discs. His sound is not one to ignore. Besides possessing a notable deftness of phrasing, he's also equipped ...
Continue ReadingTransit: Transit
by Tom Greenland
While improvising musicians thrive on novel combinations of instruments and musical personalities, there is also the sense that close and repeated creative camaraderie fosters group cohesion. Transit, the eponymously titled debut recording from the quartet of drummer Jeff Arnal, bassist Reuben Radding, alto saxophonist Seth Misterka and trumpeter Nate Wooley--all active on the grassroots avant jazz scene burgeoning in boroughs of New York--boasts both qualities, producing a satisfying blend of freshness and familiarity. The album exhibits a ...
Continue ReadingTransit: Transit
by Troy Collins
A varied session with roots in cerebral European improvisation, AACM-inspired sound experimentation and New Thing-era ferocity, Transit's self-titled debut demonstrates expert communication, the key to any successful cooperative venture. Although organized by percussionist Jeff Arnal, the members of the quartet share writing credits, relying on collective improvisation as their principle strategy. Though Transit's music is rooted in free jazz, these players are not constrained by preconceived notions.
From the tumultuous vortex of sound that opens the album to ...
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