Jazz Articles about Nels Cline

Nels Cline: Coward

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 3, 2009

Non sappiamo a cosa faccia riferimento il titolo di questo album in perfetta solitudine del geniale chitarrista californiano Nels Cline. Di sicuro, questo fantasioso interprete della chitarra moderna non è un vigliacco. Anzi, si potrebbe dire che è un avventuriero sempre pieno di risorse e di energie che sembrano derivare dalla spiccata curiosità intellettuale che gli consente di aprire tutte le porte senza mai dovere chiedere scusa. L'album è decisamente variegato e si passa dal clima da tempesta elettronica che ...

Nels Cline: Acoustic Guitar Trio & Gauci/Cline/Filiano/Pride

by Clifford Allen
June 28, 2009

Acoustic Guitar Trio Vignes Long Song Records 2009 Stephen Gauci/Nels Cline/Ken Filiano/Mike Pride Red Feast Cadence Jazz Records 2009 Guitarist Nels Cline is so recognized as a force in contemporary music because he's not really a “force". In other words, his considerable technique, taste and penchant for cross-genre blurs don't always take the spotlight. ...

Nels Cline: Coward

by Stuart Broomer
May 12, 2009

Few guitarists cover the sheer range of Nels Cline, moving between genres from folk and rock, as a member of Wilco, to free jazz, with Vinny Golia and Gregg Bendian among others, to his own highly eclectic projects that impinge on all of these categories. Coward is a solo record, in the sense that it's the work of a single musician, but it rarely sounds that way, Cline building up many of the pieces with layers of ...

Nels Cline: Coward

by Troy Collins
February 22, 2009

Since being recruited by Wilco in 2004, guitarist Nels Cline has enjoyed a level of notoriety previously unimaginable for an avant-garde instrumentalist. Cline's career actually dates back to the late seventies, when seminal efforts with his twin brother percussionist Alex Cline, multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia and bassist Eric von Essen cemented his reputation as a figurehead of the West Coast underground creative music scene.

Traversing multiple scenes, he has enjoyed a diverse career as a sideman to fellow iconoclasts ...

Nels Cline: Coward

by John Kelman
February 4, 2009

Watching guitarist Nels Cline attack his electric axe with an egg whisker at his 2005 International Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville performance helps explain the perennial question of how he does what he does, though no single performance sheds a strong enough spotlight on the chameleon-like guitarist's skill. Even when all the guitars and effects used on Coward--Cline's first solo guitar album in his 30-plus year career--are documented, there's still the nagging feeling that even that degree of detail doesn't tell ...

Nels Cline - Elliott Sharp: Duo Milano

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 28, 2008

I due chitarristi americani che firmano questo bel progetto, nato nel nostro paese, sono un po' le due facce della stessa medaglia che ben rappresenta lo stato di ottima salute della parte più creativa della moderna chitarra derivata dal jazz e ormai abituale frequentatrice del mondo delle avanguardie. L'album è diviso in due sezioni (acustic side ed electric side) che richiamano la scansione alla quale eravamo abituati in epoca vinile. Le registrazioni sono state effettuate nello studio New Art di ...

Nels Cline: Downpour, Draw Breath, Smoke Inside and Duo Milano

by Matthew Miller
August 4, 2007

Nels Cline/Andrea Parkins/Tom Rainey Downpour Victo 2007 Nels Cline Singers Draw Breath Cryptogramophone 2007 Daniele Cavallanti Electric Unit Smoke Inside Long Song 2007 Nels Cline/Elliott Sharp Duo Milano Long Song 2007

Jazz music has seen ...