Jazz Articles about Sean Noonan

Sean Noonan: A Gambler's Hand

by Florence Wetzel
September 16, 2012

Drummer Sean Noonan's A Gambler's Hand is an innovative musical suite that explores the world of a compulsive Irish gambler who finds himself trapped inside a wall. The project was conceived during a period when Noonan lived in a basement apartment and had a mysterious next-door neighbor; a man he never saw but could often hear screaming and pounding on the walls. Noonan thought perhaps his music and drumming would comfort the man, so he tried to communicate with him ...

Sean Noonan's Brewed by Noon: Boxing Dreams

by Matt Marshall
December 28, 2008

There's a solid history of jazz supplying the soundtrack for boxing. In fact, Jack Dempsey, and boxing in general, was one of the sporting kings of the jazz age. But while Miles Davis gamely tried to string boxing along as he pushed jazz forward, both art forms have seen better days--in terms of popularity--than those they now find before them. Thankfully, Sean Noonan hasn't gotten the notice of surrender. The latest offering from his Brewed by Noon outfit ...

Sean Noonan: Being Brewed By Noon

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
December 5, 2008

Few musicians since Miles Davis have had such a penchant for boxing as drummer Sean Noonan--the CD photos for Being Brewed by Noon show him bedecked in all the trappings of the sport, and he boxes with a pumpkin-headed monster in the video version of “Pumpkinhead Part 2" in the accompanying DVD.This new record is not so much the boxer's follow-up to the fine Stories to Tell (Songlines, 2006) as it is a second kick at the same ...

Sean Noonan: Stories to Tell

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 17, 2007

Se pensavate di rilassarvi, state alla larga. Questo CD non fa per voi. Non è una raccolta di tormentoni estivi (sempre che la parola più in voga in questo periodo dell'anno non possa avere altre sfumature). Non vi faciliterà le vacanze estive né vi servirà, come tappezzeria sonora, per abbellire una cena al chiaro di luna. Tutt'altro. Qui, in dieci tracce per oltre un'ora, si fa musica con la testa, poco col cuore.Sean Noonan, percussionista di razza, non ...

Sean Noonan: Stories to Tell

by Budd Kopman
May 13, 2007

Stories To Tell by drummer Sean Noonan and his Brewed By Noon group is a perfect example of what that much abused word, fusion, should be about. Here we find a grand mix of various world musics, including West African, which is music Noonan clearly loves and Celtic/Gaelic, which is from Noonan's ethnic roots.Added to this rather eclectic mix is the notion of storytelling in both the African and Irish traditions as obviously represented by the use of ...

Sean Noonan: Stories to Tell

by Florence Wetzel
February 8, 2007

Stories to Tell, by drummer Sean Noonan's group Brewed by Noon, offers a funky feast of music. An eclectic mix of jazz, rock and world music, the ten cuts on the CD draw on many cultures and influences, creating a combination that defies categorization. There's also a lot of humor; witness Aram Bajakian's liner notes, which begin, “Sean Noonan kicks my ass." But don't be fooled by the irreverence and informality--Stories to Tell is bursting with talented musicians and interesting ...

Sean Noonan Brewed By Noon: Stories To Tell

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 6, 2007

Sean Noonan Brewed By Noon Stories To Tell Songlines 2006

The electric guitar has now been around in jazz for more years than it wasn't, but it still sometimes sounds like the organism might reject the graft. This has nothing to do with a shortage of great jazz players: for pure supple beauty one need go no further than Oscar Moore's solo, at once crystalline and labyrinthine, on the Nat King Cole ...