Jazz Articles about Phil Grenadier

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Phil Grenadier / Bruno Raberg Duo: Plunge

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 1, 2012

Trumpeter Phil Grenadier and bassist Bruno Råberg have collaborated for over ten years, including on Råberg's Ascensio (2003) and Chrysalis (2004), both on Orbis Music. For this intimate duo session, Råberg had a different vision: short, immediate and busy improvisations. Soundacapes, most of them were manipulated afterwards with different effects and three were “double duo" improvisations that interacted with first versions of the improvisation. Still, the melodic element invariably surfaces, with Råberg symbolizing this process as a lonely person's inner ...

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3 Play +: American Waltz

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 15, 2009

Un contrabbassista (Lello Molinari) e un batterista (Marcello Pellitteri) italiani che insegnano alla prestigiosa Berklee College of Music, un pianista (Josh Rosen) che ama flirtare con la musica etiopica ed indonesiana, ed ecco formato il 3 Play. Un trombettista (Phil Granadier) che ha frequentato tanto Anthony Braxton che Dionne Warwick, Freddy Hubbard e James Brown, ed ecco il + presente nel nome del gruppo. Un'etichetta, la Ziggle Zaggle, che debutta proprio con questo American Waltz e lo fa in maniera ...

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3Play+: American Waltz

by Bruce Lindsay
July 23, 2009

3Play+ are a quartet, featuring trumpeter Phil Grenadier, pianist Josh Rosen, bassist Lello Molinari and drummer Marcello Pellitteri. Originally a trio, the band became 3Play+ with the addition of Grenadier; presumably the idea of calling the band 4Play was dismissed at an early stage. On the group's debut, American Waltz, it is joined on some tracks by guitarist Mick Goodrick and tenor saxophonist George Garzone. Rosen and Molinari are both professors at Boston's Berklee College of Music. ...

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3 Play+: American Waltz

by Jerry D'Souza
July 4, 2009

The music of a band is determined by its players. 3 Play+ assimilates its diverse influences to bring about a confluent whole. The music scopes a wide panorama, from lilting waltz to startlingly fractured-time piece. Each track is a miniature encapsulation of its innovation, an inspired journey into the known and the unexpected.

3 Play+ is co-led by pianist Josh Rosen and bassist Lello Molinari. Rosen's musical biography is a cross-cultural musical travelogue; besides playing with Bennie Wallace and The ...

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3Play+: American Waltz

by Mark Corroto
May 24, 2009

The cleverly titled American Waltz might deserve a more fitting inscription as American Quilt," because woven into the admirably crafted compositions of leader/pianist Josh Rosen are all the elements that are American music.

Rosen, a faculty member at Berklee College of Music, lists Bob Moses, Bennie Wallace, and }}George Schuller}} as performance partners. Besides projects with Ethiopian master musician Mulatu Astake, Stan Strickland, Dave Fox's Adventures In Sound, Bangalore and The Infinite Ensemble, he toured with Ethiopiques and ...

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João Lencastre's Communion: One!

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 11, 2008

Strano album, questo. Registrato per metà dal vivo e per metà in studio. Per metà orientato verso autentici capisaldi della storia del jazz, con una particolare attenzione agli anni '60, e per metà rivolto verso orizzonti più contemporanei, sviluppati attraverso composizioni collettive. Un album brillante, ben suonato, ma privo di un autentico filo conduttore. Lacuna dovuta anche al fatto che il leader non manifesta la sua direzione con un consistente apporto compositivo, ma limita il suo contributo alla direzione musicale. ...