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Drummer-composer Devin Gray Presents Melt All The Guns II, The Second Release By His Melt All The Guns Trio, Featuring Trumpet Ace Ralph Alessi And French Pianist Myslaure Augustin

Source: Devin Gray
September 16, 2024

Drummer-Composer Devin Gray Presents Melt All the Guns II, the Second Release by his Melt All the Guns Trio, Featuring Trumpet Ace Ralph Alessi and, New to the Band, French Pianist Myslaure Augustin Melt All the Guns II—to be released digitally and on CD via Gray’s Rataplan Records on October 4, 2024—features 11 rhythmically intricate, melodically charged compositions by the drummer-leader, brought to vivid life by this trio of top-flight improvisers Gray, Alessi & Augustin will perform material from Melt ...

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Recording

Most Definitely - The First Solo Recording From Drummer-Composer Devin Gray, Due June 9th From Rataplan Records

Source: Devin Gray
April 20, 2023

Brooklyn-Berlin based drummer-composer Devin Gray made his widely lauded leader debut in 2012 with the release Dirigo Rataplan, which included a crew of heavyweight veterans Ellery Eskelin, Michael Formanek and Dave Ballou. JazzTimes said that Gray’s debut represented “the work of a young artist who knows who he is.” Free Jazz blog encapsulated the album this way: “...one of the best debut albums in years.” In 2015 Gray released Relative Resonance, a band of close New York associates: Chris Speed, ...

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