Jazz Articles about Trey Gunn

About Trey Gunn

Album Review

There is nothing Western-sounding about this rodeo--very far from it--but it does feel like a sort of rendezvous by virtue of returning to somewhat familiar territory. Granted, “familiar" also means wildly bizarre and occasionally terrifying, but anyone who knows these names should expect nothing less. Pat Mastelotto and Trey Gunn are best known as a beastly rhythm section in the King Crimsons of the '90s and early '00s, while touch guitarist Markus Reuter has plenty of the same musical DNA ...

Album Review

Tu-Ner: T1-Contact Information

Read "T1-Contact Information" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
August 8, 2023

After so many years crossing paths in the realm of experimental-industrial-groove-jazz-rock weirdness, it would have been more surprising if these three did not all join forces at some point. Pat Mastelotto and Trey Gunn build on a decades-long history in multiple King Crimson rhythm sections as well as their own duo called TU. Touch guitarist Markus Reuter plays with Mastelotto in the trio Stick Men as well as in their own duo called TUNER. (Gunn and Reuter have also performed ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Music from Aurora Clara, Golden Mean and Metrik System

by Len Davis
August 4, 2023

New music from Spanish band Aurora Clara with Dreams, Golden Mean from Oumuamua and German band Metrik System featuring Richard Hallebeek. Armenian rock fusion from Vahe Sarkissian, and Steve Smith, George Brooks and Prasanna from Raga Bop Trio. Chapman Stick player Trey Gunn, Scott Kinsey playing Zawinul music and Lo Greco Brothers from Fusion In The City Playlist Aurora Clara “Dancing In The Forest" from Transformation (Youkali) 00:00 Aurora Clara “Beyond The Tetrachords" from Dreams (Youkali) 06:13 Golden ...

Extended Analysis

Heaven & Earth: Live and in the Studio 1997-2008

by John Kelman
June 8, 2019

Yet another year, yet another characteristically detailed and chronologically contextualized King Crimson mega-box set. Except that 2019 is no typical year. And Heaven & Earth is no typical King Crimson box set. While Heaven & Earth: Live and in the Studio 1997-2008 completes (well, almost) the series of box sets documenting King Crimson's original commercial recordings (and so much more), it's far from the group's first (or only) release to go along with the current three-drummer ...

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Album Review

U-Z: Ultimate Zero - Live

Read "Ultimate Zero - Live" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
December 31, 2010

Since returning to the progressive rock scene with a new group/EP--UKZ's Radiation (Globe Music, 2009), U.K. co-founder and Frank Zappa/Jethro Tull alum Eddie Jobson has been dealing with the same problems that every indie musician does: keeping a band together for less than regular touring. With UKZ in suspension, the keyboardist/violinist began touring U-Z--devoted to performing classic progressive rock and fusion music from back in the day--with a revolving-door including fellow legends, bassists Tony Levin and John Wetton, alongside younger ...

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Album Review

Trey Gunn / Marco Minnemann: Modulator

Read "Modulator" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 19, 2010

Touch guitar ace Trey Gunn composed this album based upon Marco Minnemann's 51-minute Normalizer 2 drum solo. Thankfully, this is not a bash fest; instead, the drummer's rhythmic foray features odd-metered polyrhythmic episodes and textural cymbal swashes amid a cavalcade of salient percussive concepts.The preponderance of the largely, contiguous tracks do indeed pronounce a modulating framework; on “Flood," the duo exercises restraint to complement the sinuous journey. Gunn's limber touch guitar work encompasses fretless guitar and basses to ...

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Album Review

KTU: Quiver

by John Kelman
June 15, 2009

There's often considerable difference between live and studio recording, where the facility's greater capacity for control and manipulation can almost become an additional band member. Still, for some the difference is a subtle one. In the case of KTU--a collective that began with half of King Crimson (Warr guitarist Trey Gunn and traps/button man Pat Mastelotto) working together as TU, accordionist Kimo Pohjonen and sampler Samuli Kosminen (both Finns)--there's a world of a difference. The group's debut, 8 Armed Monkey ...