Jazz Articles about Todd Sickafoose

Bora Yoon: Phonation

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 14, 2011

Ascoltando Phonation, ci si chiede a quale viaggio, a quale percorso sonoro stiamo assistendo. Si tratta senza dubbio di un viaggio solitario dell'autrice, il cui tentativo è quello di costruire una nuova musica folk: accostare suoni e brani che indaghino sul significato dell'esistenza, con strumenti moderni (elettronica, synth) e antichi (voce, ciotole tibetane, acqua, mani). Lo stesso discorso estetico di Bjork, quest'ultima però dal lato pop. C'è una voce, accompagnata da pochi strumenti e soprattutto da fantasmi, che dovrebbero materializzarsi ...

Todd Sickafoose: The Art of Non-Resistance

by Rex Butters
September 22, 2008

With the release of his unique, understated, and critically acclaimed Tiny Resistors (Cryptogramophone, 2008), bassist/composer Todd Sickafoose suddenly and unintentionally upped the ante for indie jazz. Surging ahead of such indie mainstays (and label mates) as Nels Cline, Steuart Liebig, and boss Jeff Gauthier, Sickafoose has garnered strong press from such diverse sources as Bass Player Magazine, PopMatters, Jazz Times, USA Today, and The New York Times. The daring, spacious compositions and performances on Tiny Resistors, Sickafoose's third CD collection, ...

Todd Sickafoose: Tiny Resistors

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
June 12, 2008

With lush orchestrations of finely honed compositions, bassist Todd Sickafoose's Tiny Resistors reveals a broad musical vision. A stalwart of the new music scene, playing improv and indie-rock projects and blurring those distinctions, Sickafoose's third CD highlights his maturation as a composer and talents as a multi-instrumentalist, with pieces incorporating a swath of stylistic influences--rock, Americana, jazz, blues and touches of modern classical. Sickafoose works a sweeping aural range, with instrumentation that includes two guitars, drums and ...

Todd Sickafoose: Tiny Resistors

by John Kelman
June 3, 2008

An active sideman, bassist Todd Sickafoose is best-known for his work with DIY singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco. But he's also been very busy on the outer edges of jazz, working with artists including John Zorn on Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik, 2003), Tin Hat Trio on The Rodeo Eroded (Ropeadope, 2002), and Scott Amendola Band on the drummer's very fine Cry (Cryptogramophone, 2003). It may be Amendola's disc that hooked Sickafoose up with Cryptogramophone for Tiny Resistors, his third record as ...

Todd Sickafoose Group: Blood Orange

by Nathan Haselby
December 27, 2005

The young composer and bassist Todd Sickafoose waited a full five years to put out his second release, Blood Orange, following his debut, Dogs Outside (2000). Considering the advances he has made as a composer and arranger, the wait is worth it. Sickafoose still writes pensive mainstream jazz enriched by free improvisation, but his tighter new group makes possible writing which demands no less from individual players and gets much more from the whole.

To be fair, Dogs Outside was ...