Adam Nolan

“It's more difficult to target the biggest influences on Nolan. They may be from outer space, as few earthlings have that kind of lung capacity. What he does musically inside those long winded furloughs is as remarkable as his open minded and creative note selections. All on the fly, improvisational, and indeed primal. Nolan reaches down into a guttural level that is somewhere between mind blowing and magnificent. He gets responses from his bandmates that at times have interplay logic or reactive quality. Just as often the return is starting up their own elements, adding them to the mix, and giving Nolan something else to play with, respond to, or not

Read more

“It's more difficult to target the biggest influences on Nolan. They may be from outer space, as few earthlings have that kind of lung capacity. What he does musically inside those long winded furloughs is as remarkable as his open minded and creative note selections. All on the fly, improvisational, and indeed primal. Nolan reaches down into a guttural level that is somewhere between mind blowing and magnificent. He gets responses from his bandmates that at times have interplay logic or reactive quality. Just as often the return is starting up their own elements, adding them to the mix, and giving Nolan something else to play with, respond to, or not. The next note, the next exchange, is never obvious.” - Jim Worsley (All About Jazz)

“a puffed-up soufflé of Avant-garde music that stretches both restrictive walls and their creativity” - Dee Dee McNeil (Musical Memoirs Blog)

“Jazz DJs everywhere will be choosing this for late night airplay I have no doubt” - Dick Metcalf (Lacey, Washington)

“a sax led improv trio sounds like they spent time with Sonny under the bridge as opposed to time in their native Ireland” - Chris Spector (Midwest Record Illinois)

“Nolan clearly enjoys fractioning time and harmony, even to the extent of adding “space” between his notes. Nolan clearly has no fear in experimenting outside the usual norm in jazz.” - Lynn René Bayley (Art Music Lounge)

Show less