Jazz Articles about Nate Wooley

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Nate Wooley Quintet: (Put Your) Hands Together

by Glenn Astarita
May 23, 2011

(Put Your) Hands Together's cover art features a photo of trumpeter Nate Wooley putting his hands together, perhaps as a token of appreciation for his quintet's exemplary performance. Praise is in order because of the program's captivating synchronicity, artfully scaling between structure and improvisation to complement an abundance of polytonal facets. With penetrating compositions and thoughtful improvisational metrics, Wooley's bronze-toned lines and prophetic choruses loom as a commanding force. “Ethyl" features an idiomatic tenor that differs from several ...

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Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra: Ashcan Rantings

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 7, 2011

Se la sezione delle trombe è formata da tue tipi come Nate Wooley e Taylor Ho Bynum si insinua il ragionevole dubbio che l'orchestra in questione del tutto “normale" proprio non sia. Se poi il contrabbassista, compositore e leader ha il nome di Adam Lane, una presenza costante “coast to coast “ nei progetti più interessanti della musica improvvisata nordamericana, il dubbio diventa certezza. Perché Ashcan Rantings è un grandissimo disco e la Full Throttle Orchestra (in realtà un nonetto), ...

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Nate Wooley - Paul Lytton: Creak Above 33

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 1, 2010

È affascinante esplorare le due “mappe" contrapposte che Nate Wooley [tromba] e Paul Lytton [percussioni] hanno deciso di riprodurre all'interno della confezione di questo loro nuovo lavoro [il secondo] in duo, Creak Above 33. In un incrociarsi frenetico di frecce e collegamenti, i due musicisti - ciascuno con la propria personalità - tentano l'impresa di mappare idee, riferimenti, dubbi, domande, contesti, nei quali si muove la loro ricerca di improvvisatori. Qualche malalingua potrebbe sottolineare la “confusione" in cui versano i ...

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Nate Wooley

by Stuart Broomer
June 12, 2010

Nate Wooley Trumpet/Amplifier Smeraldina-Rima 2010 Nate Wooley & Paul Lytton Creak above 33 psi 2010

Nate Wooley somehow maintains a relatively low profile among younger trumpeters, a group traditionally given an excess of attention, but it may just be that he's hard to pin down. His quality as a free improviser ...

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Transit: Quadrologues & Nate Wooley: The Seven Storey Mountain

by Clifford Allen
November 7, 2009

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 ...

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Nate Wooley - Fred Lonberg-Holm - Jason Roebke: Throw Down Your Hammer and Sing

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 6, 2009

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 ...

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Nate Wooley: Throw Down Your Hammer and Sing and Crackleknob

by Clifford Allen
May 9, 2009

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 ...