Jazz Articles about Paul Hession

About Paul Hession

Album Review

George Haslam/Borah Bergman/Paul Hession: The Mahout

by Ty Cumbie
May 23, 2004

On The Mahout, three well established musicians meet, almost for the first time, and produce an album from thin air. Yes, this is free improvisation in the age of instancy, but this is still a remarkably spontaneous product. According to the brief liner notes, the trio met for a beer, then recorded the next morning. Evidently it was only one beer—these men are no college kids, and the music reveals no trace of hangover. The title track, if anything, might ...

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Album Review

Paul Hession - Simon H. Fell - Charles Wharf: Improvabilly

Read "Improvabilly" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 6, 2002

Bassist/composer Simon H. Fell represents a significant force within Britain’s generally fertile improvisational scene. Yet, the artist has worked with Americans such as John Zorn (sax), Joey Baron (drums) and others, while also venturing into mainstream jazz and chamber frameworks. With this release, recorded in what the musicians refer to as a “dark and smelly room,” the trio’s freely concocted improvisations might be analogous to an action packed cinematic thriller. Besides the division of these works into sequentially oriented compositions, ...