Jazz Articles about Phillip Golub

About Phillip Golub

Radio & Podcasts

Akusmi, Nelson Patton, arc rae, hackedepicciotto, Grateful Dead and more

by Lawrence Peryer
August 8, 2026

Episode 17 spends its first half putting things together: drone loops rebuilt into full arrangements, improvised cello reassembled into composition, a century-old fiddle tune rebuilt with dance and harmonics, before heading to Los Angeles for a band that builds the same unresolved tension by hand, live, in a room. The back half turns from a microtonal utopia and a rhythmic ambient interior to a straight line from Peter Gabriel through Bruce Hornsby's brand new record featuring Bob Weir and into ...

Album Review

Phillip Golub: Partisan Ship

Read "Partisan Ship" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
May 31, 2026

In a lot off ways, it is a game of catch-up listening to Brooklyn pianist/improvisor/composer Phillip Golub once he kick-starts the oddly titled Partisan Ship into high gear with “Loyalty Oath," a piece of mad musical fiction that holds attention in place with its octopi rhythms and runaway melodies rushing in all at once. Partisan Ship is oddly titled because Golub, an unapologetic polymath far out on the progressive spectrum, and his juiced and jazzed up cohorts--clarinetist and ...

Album Review

Phillip Golub / Lesley Mok: Dream Brigade

Read "Dream Brigade" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
May 7, 2025

Pianist Phillip Golub and drummer Lesley Mok explore the porous boundaries between form and freedom on their exploratory debut as Dream Brigade, blending spontaneous composition with intuitive interplay in a wide-ranging program of six spontaneous inventions and two dives into the Great American Songbook. An in-demand side person, Mok can be heard in the blue chip ensembles of pianist Myra Melford and reedist Anna Webber, as well as leading the group The Living Collection. Golub's resume includes principals ...

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Phillip Golub: Recording The Impossible Piano

by Lawrence Peryer
March 29, 2025

Brooklyn pianist Phillip Golub is taking his music in bold new directions.Phillip's new project, Loop 7 (greyfade, 2025), is a set of minimalist compositions performed on a piano tuned to 22 notes per octave instead of the usual 12. Working with producer Joseph Branciforte, he's created something that lives between acoustic chamber music and studio art.It's a groundbreaking approach--Phillip's performance was captured on a special Yamaha piano in a unique way he tells us about. The ...

Album Review

Phillip Golub: Abiding Memory

Read "Abiding Memory" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
August 12, 2024

Pressoché sconosciuto dalle nostre parti, il poco più che trentenne Phillip Golub è musicista assai attivo nella sempre effervescente scena newyorchese. Eclettico, trasversale, dalla curiosità onnivora si muove con disinvoltura tra jazz, intrighi elettronici, libera improvvisazione e musica da camera, come testimoniano dischi e concerti. Per Abiding Memory si è scomodato un gigante del pianoforte come Vijay Iyer, scrivendone assai lusinghiere note di copertina. E l'ascolto delle dieci tracce conferma appieno l'eccellenza del risultato, perché Abiding Memory è ...

Radio & Podcasts

Phillip Golub, Irene Schweizer, and Bill Frisell

by Jerome Wilson
August 7, 2024

This show features recent releases by Phillip Golub, Sam Anning, and Bill Frisell as well as older work from the San Francisco String Trio, Irene Schweizer, and King Pleasure. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Ezra Weiss Sextett “Don't Need No Ticket" from Before You Know It (Roark) 00:58 Riverside “Demigods" from The New National Anthem (Greenleaf Music) 10:30 ...