Jazz Articles about Vinny Golia

Vinny Golia: Music For Like Instruments: The Eb Saxophones

by Rex Butters
March 6, 2004

Iconoclast and master reed wrangler Vinny Golia returns with his latest offering from his 9 Winds catalogue, Music for Like Instruments. This first of two such titled projects planned for this year focuses on the E flat saxophone, better known as the alto. Joined by Jason Mears, Beth Shenck, and Nathan Herrera, Golia creates music for wind quartet that juxtaposes highly original writing with inspired improvisational exchanges. He takes his chances with stritch, sopranino, and baritone saxophones, along with his ...

Vinny Golia: Music For like Instruments: The Eb Saxophones

by Mark Corroto
January 13, 2004

Heading up your own label gives you a certain freedom of expression and the ability to create varying projects. Vinnie Golia's stewardship has been the impetus for well over a hundred recordings on his Nine Winds label. From free duets to large ensemble sessions, Golia has kept the West Coast creative scene well documented.

One of his many ongoing projects is his Music For Like Instruments, which mates woodwinds of the same key, with similar characteristics, or those ...

A Fireside Chat With Vinny Golia

by AAJ Staff
April 3, 2003

An old friend once took me to see Vinny Golia at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Since then, I have made it a mission to listen to every recorded note from Golia (not the easiest of tasks) and his 9Winds label. The 9Winds catalog includes recordings with the late Richard Grossman, the late John Carter, sessions with the criminally unrecorded Roberto Miranda and Bobby Bradford, Bertram Turetzky, George Lewis, Tony Malaby, Rich Halley, Michael Vlatkovich, Wadada Leo Smith, ...

Vinny Golia: Feeding Frenzy

by Farrell Lowe
March 13, 2003

On Feeding Frenzy multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia explores the borders between modern classical music and modern jazz. He has chosen a string quartet to accompany him on his forays through the dizzying woodwind (various flutes and clarinets) forests he has built for this project. They start with “Title Sequence," a thorny hedgerow of Penderecki-like string and Gershwin-esque clarinet themes. After the form is stated, the music moves into jazz territory with the sophisticated bass work of Ken Filiano. Upon the shifting ...

Vinny Golia: Feeding Frenzy

by Mark Corroto
January 1, 2003

To borrow a moniker from the superstar world of chefs, Vinny Golia should now be addressed as “Molto Golia.” Besides playing more instruments than any musician working today, he plays in more combinations and groups than just about any working jazzman. From his very large ensembles, to big band, and all the way down to solo performance, he has produced challenging music for the past thirty years.

Feeding Frenzy is subtitled Music For Woodwinds & String Quartet. ...

Vinny Golia Quintet: Nation of Laws

by Michael A. Parker
November 1, 2001

We don’t even make it past the first four minutes of this disc without Nels Cline exploding with some of his characteristic unheard sounds on electric guitar, and towards the 9 minute mark of this same first piece, there’s an incredible merging of voices between Nels Cline’s guitar and Vinny Golia’s clarinet. However, this disc is not a Nels-fest, although he does unleash a number of great solos, making it essential for all Nels-heads; first and foremost it is a ...

The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble: Oakland 1999

by Mark Corroto
April 1, 2000

Vinny Golia is a busy man. In today’s lingo we call it ‘multi-tasking,’ the ability to perform various complicated assignments, seemingly at once. The artist, label chief, conductor, and musician has produced and performed in varying creative music situations. From solo work to improvised duo, trios, and post-bop quintets, he has taken his instruments, which by the way include everything from the piccolo to all saxophones, most clarinets, the English horn, bassoon, and flutes, into every conceivable setting.

A passion ...