Jazz Articles about Rob Mosher

About Rob Mosher

Album Review

Polebridge è una piccola località del Montana a un tiro di schioppo da quel Canada da cui Rob Mosher, polistrumentista ad ancia e compositore, proviene (attualmente vive a Brooklyn). Con tutta evidenza immune da soverchi limiti stilistici, Mosher dichiara esplicitamente che il suo intento è mischiare un bel po' di cose insieme: musica da camera, o classica tout court (cita esplicitamente Schumann e Prokofiev), con stilemi squisitamente country & western (non a caso Stephanie Nilles si divide fra un canonicissimo ...

Album Review

Rob Mosher: Polebridge

Read "Polebridge" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 5, 2013

Soundtrack music can complement a piece of cinema by adding suspense, describe the onscreen action or, in the case of a silent movie, provide the sounds of pratfalls and doorbells. The first spin of Rob Mosher's Polebridge could easily recall the soundtrack to a Buster Keaton silent film. The liner notes explain that the music is a soundtrack, there's just no movie. The story is all in the composer's head.The Canadian-born, now Brooklyn-resident saxophonist sets his chamber jazz ...

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A Chorale-a-Day Keeps the Blues Away

by Fradley Garner
November 15, 2010

To celebrate his 31st birthday, the New York-based, Canadian composer and soprano saxophonist Rob Mosher gave himself a challenge: writing 31 Bach-style chorales in 31 days. He started October 20, and at press time he was on target. “I'm a big fan of Duke Ellington's 'I don't need time, I need a deadline' approach," quotes Mosher. Every day he posts that day's chorale, so you can hear it on a keyboard as he blogs about it at robmosher.com and at ...

Album Review

Rob Mosher's - Storytime: The Tortoise

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 20, 2009

Giovane compositore canadese, Rob Mosher, da qualche tempo si è trasferito a New York proseguendo anche un percorso da polistrumentista poliedrico, alternandosi tra sax soprano, oboe e corno inglese. A colpire fin dal principio di questo album autoprodotto The Tortoise, sono soprattutto varietà stilistica e un ensemble di 10 elementi aventi caratteristiche e background musicale assai diverso (jazz, classico e lirico). Melting pot musicale e strumentale dalle diverse influenze che sa cogliere diverse essenze ed idee, facendole proprie e riforgiandole ...

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Album Review

Rob Mosher's Storytime: The Tortoise

Read "The Tortoise" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 11, 2008

The compelling debut of Canadian-born, New York-based reed man and self-taught composer Rob Mosher is a thematic composition for his 10-piece ensemble Storytime. Using Storytime, featuring young composers and reed men Sam Sadigursky and Peter Hess, Mosher succeeds in orchestrating vividly sophisticated, highly melodic suite-like musical stories. These cinematic narratives reflect Mosher's diverse influences, ranging from Claude Debussy and Kurt Weill to Gil Evans and Wayne Shorter, while still bearing his singular compositional voice. The title represents Mosher's method of ...

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Album Review

Rob Mosher's Storytime: The Tortoise

Read "The Tortoise" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
October 16, 2008

The Tortoise is the debut of Canadian-born, New York-based multi-instrumentalist Rob Mosher's ensemble Storytime. The album's twelve tracks encapsulate a wealth of influences, which span everything from jubilant early jazz styles and rich classical forms to harmonically intricate post-bop and edgy free improvisation. A far more nuanced hybrid than the early experiments of the Third Stream movement, Mosher's efforts combine the pastoral impressionism of Claude Debussy and the lush orchestrations of Gil Evans with the stark modernism of Wayne Shorter and ...