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Album Review

O'Clock Trio: Sessions 24

Read "Sessions 24" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


The trio's Sessions 24 is an EP that clocks in around 15 minutes and serves as a sonic adventure that leans hard into the wild world of effects-driven soundscapes. Spearheaded by Willie Oteri's guitar wizardry, Ricardo Acevedo's (also known as Lost Cat Magnet) pulsating beats, synths and samples, with Tiago da Silva's anchoring bass and percussion, it is less about jazz's conventional swing and more about crafting immersive improvisation and electrified textures that pulse with raw energy. “Billy ...

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Take Five With Willie Oteri

Read "Take Five With Willie Oteri" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Willie Oteri: An anomaly in the music world having survived tragedy and financial hardship that forced him to quit music as a profession during the early part of his career, Willie Oteri has come back to music. With a small budget he released two well-received blues/rock albums in the late '90s before moving to Austin, Texas where he befriended some of Austin's top jazz musicians. Wanting to pursue the freedom of electric jazz and improvisation, Oteri contracted producer ...

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Shrunken Head Shop: Live in Germany

Read "Live in Germany" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


This international group is captured performing improvised music in Germany, featuring guest trumpeter Dave Laczko on three tracks that reside somewhere between Miles Davis' Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970) era and experimental trumpeter Jon Hassell's work. Laczko and guitar whiz Willie Oteri have also recorded under the moniker WD-41. Indeed, both artists are known for pushing the envelope within progressive rock and avant, jazz fusion circles, assertively manifesting these exploratory processes here. The set is primarily constructed on slow ...

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WD-41+2: Temi Per Cinema

Read "Temi Per Cinema" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Temi Per Cinema is the follow-up to guitarist Willie Oteri and trumpeter Dave Laczko's self-produced WD-41 (2009), with the addition of lap steel dulcimer and beat jockey artist Dino J.A. Deane and drummer Scott Amendola. Collectively, the musicians have been at the forefront of new music-making, amid variable flavors and shades, bordering on the avant-garde, jazz-rock, electronica and other intertwining genres. Here, the WD-41+2 unit expands upon applications and concepts, first evidenced on the 2009 effort. At times, ...

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Album Review

Willie Oteri / Dave Laczko: WD-41

Read "WD-41" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


The conceptual, avant-garde mode of electronics-based implementations receives a slender uplift, thanks to guitarist and effects maestro Willie Oteri's collaboration with trumpeter Dave Laczko. This 2009, download-only, release is a spacey trip; chock full of loops, streaming synth noises, and fractured sojourns into the cosmic void.

Oteri's résumé includes collaborations with latter-day King Crimson musicians and former Frank Zappa hired guns, among other notables. In light of this, he's obviously well-seasoned in the progressive rock realm, amid the ...

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Interview

Willie Oteri: Seek and Ye Shall Find

Read "Willie Oteri: Seek and Ye Shall Find" reviewed by Igor Petruska


One of the biggest draws to the Jazz for Sale festival as part of the ongoing Visegrad Days 2004 was without a doubt the performance of the American/Slovak Willie Oteri and the Oskar Rozsa Quartet. The excellent bass guitarist Oskar Rozsa, trumpet player, keyboards and sound experimenter Lubos Priehradnik, and drummer Marcel Buntaj - the Slovak part of the quartet need no introduction to regular readers of Music.box. Guitarist Willie Oteri, born in California, is a very respected player on ...

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Willie Oteri: Spiral Out

Read "Spiral Out" reviewed by Marco Piva


The eclectic US guitarist Willie Oteri, who played with or supported artists like Bob Seger, Neil Young, Doobie Brothers, Chaka Khan and Passenger and has been a member of Jazz Gunn, has the chance to cooperate with producer Ronan Chris Murphy (who has worked with King Crimson amongst others) for this Spiral Out that he records with such artists as the rhythm section of King Crimson (Tony Levin on bass and Pat Mastelotto on drums), Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa) on ...


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