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Scott Dubois: Landscape Scripture
by Troy Collins
Art inspired by work in another medium can be difficult to successfully resolve--the old adage, “dancing about architecture," comes to mind. In the hands of a truly talented and empathetic artist however, such creative cross-pollination can bear surprisingly fruitful results, occasionally developing new potential for expression beyond the preconceived limitations of each respective form.Landscape Scripture is a highly accomplished and fully realized example of this concept. The fifth album by guitarist Scott DuBois (his third for Sunnyside Records), ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Il trentaduenne Scott DuBois, nato nell'Illinois e cresciuto a New York, è un chitarrista che nell'ambiente del jazz americano si è fatto un nome: questo disco sembra porre bene in vista alcune belle caratteristiche ma anche qualche limite. Tutti i sette pezzi originali sono interessanti, sia per lo sviluppo ritmico e dinamico, sia per un'interpretazione molto sentita che mostra la forza di un quartetto affiatato, in grado di conferire allo stesso tempo poesia e corpo alla musica. In primo piano ...
Continue ReadingScott Dubois: Black Hawk Dance
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There is a deep, questioning spirituality that pervades the music of Scott DuBois. On Black Hawk Dance, his second Sunnyside release, the music becomes a kind of ancient/modern ritual that reaches outward and upward to seemingly attain--as Don Cherry once did--complete communion with the Divine. But the journey is not easy, as the music on this album will verify. It comes at a price. The artist is heard grappling with a soul in torment before he finds solace in the ...
Continue ReadingScott Dubois: Banshees
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo album del chitarrista americano Scott Dubois segna un deciso incontro tra il free ed il bop. L'impostazione dei brani, le esposizioni dei temi con sax e chitarra che si muovono all'unisono, è infatti di natura tradizionale. A confondere le acque ci sono gli accenti spostati, la melodia un po' stiracchiata, ma insomma, la concezione è schiettamente bop. A volte persino risaputa. Poi ci sono gli interventi solistici, che si muovono invece su territori più liberi, a tratti decisamente free, ...
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by Glenn Astarita
On his previous 2005 release, Tempest (Soul Note), guitarist Scott DuBois aligned with prominent saxophonists, David Liebman, Loren Stillman and Jason Rigby as front line foils. Here, the artist employs German multi-woodwind ace Gebhard Ullmann for a largely, high-impact progressive jazz gala that comes right at you via sinewy discourses and complexly concocted song-forms.
Sparked by dynamic free-bop unison choruses, DuBois' intricately woven and somewhat animated single note flurries loom as a constant denominator. At times he seemingly ...
Continue ReadingScott Dubois: Banshees
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Scott Dubois thrives on mercuriality. The guitarist-composer writes and plays with a starkness and moodiness that suits him perfectly, as displayed on Banshees. The shifts of focus and varying tempos make the music as fluid and intriguing as a Dalì painting.
Dubois shows off his Metheny-influenced licks on “Mid to the West” and saxophonist Gebhard Ullmann shows immediately that he’s an acolyte from the upper register school of tenor playing. Thomas Morgan’s private-eye slick bass drives ... Continue ReadingScott DuBois: Banshees
by Troy Collins
Guitarist Scott DuBois is a rising presence on the New York jazz scene, an impressive soloist and gifted writer whose abilities garnered the attention of legendary saxophonist David Liebman, who served as a sideman on DuBois' previous releases, Monsoon (Soul Note, 2002) and Tempest (Soul Note, 2007). Banshees is the Sunnyside debut of the guitarist's international quartet, which features the Berlin based multi-reedist Gebhard Ullmann, fellow New Yorker Thomas Morgan on bass and Copenhagen resident Kresten Osgood on drums.
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