Jazz Articles about Paul Dunmall

Paul Dunmall Octet: Bridging The Great Divide

by Mark Corroto
April 4, 2004

Let’s face it, the idea of an improvising octet recording conjures thoughts of Machine Gun, the Peter Brötzmann's full frontal assault from 1969. It’s a masterpiece, but you cannot hum along with it, and honestly, besides scaring your neighbors, why play it more than once?

Listenability is the reason to drop the needle, er put the CD laser to a Paul Dunmall recording. His music is created to be listened to, not just be a great cathartic experience ...

A Fireside Chat with Paul Dunmall

by AAJ Staff
November 29, 2003

Born of the working class, Uker Paul Dunmall, like many of the Euros who are progressing improvised music, is well versed. Musically, ideologically, and instrumentally, Dunmall may seem avant-garde, but that is conventional paranoia. A member of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra and a founding member of the improv collective power group, Mujician, Dunmall, again like many of his Euro counterparts, has a wealthy discography that will stimulate the mind as much as it will subtract the bank account. Of ...

Paul Dunmall & Tony Bianco: I You

by John Eyles
May 6, 2002

Paul Dunmall seems hell-bent on generating as large a discography as possible. His own imprint, DUNS, is releasing a prodigious number of albums. At the current rate, Dunmall will rival the notoriously large discographies of Braxton, Lacy, Evan Parker and David Murray. (Is this a saxophonist thing?) However, quantity is not being achieved at the expense of quality; Dunmall's name on an album is rapidly becoming a recommendation in itself. Dunmall and Bianco were last featured together as two-thirds of ...