Jazz Articles about Vinny Golia

Vinny Golia Quartet: featuring Bobby Bradford, Ken Filiano and Alex Cline: Take Your Time

by Glenn Astarita
October 24, 2011

The third recording by this venerable Southern California ensemble yields an abundance of rewarding factors. First, it's a superbly recorded audio engineering process that adds to the depth and nuances of the program. Second, multi-woodwind artist Vinny Golia and his band mates hit their stride in prismatic fashion. Unbound by borders, the musicians' have helped formulate the West Coast musical aura, evidenced by the successful output of the Cryptogramophone and Golia's Nine Winds record labels, with a lineage ...

The Vinny Golia Octet: Music for Baritone Saxophone

by Robert Bush
July 1, 2011

Vinny Golia OctetMusic For Baritone SaxophoneNine Winds Records2011 Woodwind multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia has been both the beacon and a touchstone for the West Coast free improvising community, particularly in Los Angeles, for over 30 years. Golia started his Nine Winds label in 1977, as a vehicle for distributing his own music, then expanded its mission statement around 1980 to document music from Canada to Mexico that wasn't being heard. Some 200 ...

Vinny Golia: The San Diego Session; Mythology; Duets & Großes Messer

by Wilbur MacKenzie
February 28, 2010

Vinny Golia/Bertram TuretzkyThe San Diego SessionKadima Collective2009 Vinny Golia/Peter KowaldMythologyKadima Collective2009 Brad Dutz/Vinny GoliaDuetsself-published2009 Golia/Smith/WalterGroßes MesserugEXPLODE2009 Vinny Golia is a virtuoso at being a multi-instrumentalist. These four discs, presenting two duos with bassists, one with a drummer and ...

Golia / Josephson / Kaiser / Keneally / Morris / Smith / Walter: Healing Force: The Songs of Albert Ayler

by Jerry D'Souza
February 8, 2008

Saxophonist Albert Ayler was a restless genius. He was a ferocious improviser, extreme in his innovations, uncompromising in his approach. He could blend free improvisation with gospel fervor, or with the harmonic concept of a marching band. He did it all with unmitigated passion that made him a revered musician.

Ayler was accused of selling out when he released Love Cry (1967), New Grass (1968) and Music is the Healing Force of the Universe (1969)--all on Impulse!--on which ...

Healing Force: The Songs of Albert Ayler

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 21, 2008

Sette fra i più attivi guastatori sonori in circolazione sulla costa occidentale degli States, si danno appuntamento presso i Fantasy Studios di Berkeley, California, e sfruttando fino all’ultimo byte messo a disposizione dalla tecnologia, licenziano un corposo omaggio all’arte di Albert Ayler. Fin qui niente di particolarmente sorprendente, a parte le difficoltà relative ad un personaggio sfuggente, enigmatico e di complessa decifrazione come il sassofonista di Cleveland. Se non che i nostri decidono di focalizzare l’attenzione sul suo periodo più ...

Vinny Golia: Sfumato and Music for Like Instruments; The Clarinets

by Jeff Stockton
December 2, 2006

Vinny Golia Quartet Sfumato Clean Feed 2005 Vinny Golia Music for Like Instruments; The Clarinets Nine Winds 2005

The increase in the number of recently released solo piano CDs could be a direct result of the popularity of the piano-less quartet. The Vinny Golia Quartet on Sfumato is just a little ...

Vinny Golia Quartet: Sfumato

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 13, 2006

Vinny Golia è un distinto signore di mezza età che suona più di una ventina di strumenti a fiato, vanta una quantità sterminata di registrazioni che vanno dal solo alla grande formazione orchestrale, ed è apprezzato compositore anche per il balletto classico, la danza moderna, il teatro, i video e i films. Ma soprattutto, con la Nine Winds, etichetta da lui fondata nel 1977, costituisce una sorta di cuore pulsante della scena free californiana. Per questo Sfumato, Golia riunisce tre ...