Jazz Articles about Rich Halley Trio

Rich Halley Trio: Mountains and Plains

by Jim Santella
October 17, 2005

With their creative ideas flowing naturally, these three musicians open the windows and doors to cast relaxed impressions. The intensity tucked inside their performance ensures, however, that no part of their program becomes too relaxed. A vibrant quality pervades the session, giving life blood throughout.

Saxophonist Rich Halley communicates with a whispered tone that moans softly like the wind one moment and roars violently like falling rocks the next. The key is spontaneity. He steers his trio through ...

Rich Halley Trio: Objects

by Dave Nathan
August 23, 2002

Oregon's Louie Records continues to provide a platform for jazz artists who favor free, improvised jazz rather than trying to work in a structured environment. Rich Halley has been a member of that club for several years, starting with his first album for the Avocet label in 1984. This is his second album for Louie as he continues to work with members of his regular trio, Clyde Reed on bass and Dave Storrs, the brains behind the label, on drums. ...

Rich Halley Trio: Objects

by Dan McClenaghan
July 6, 2002

Way up in Corvallis, Oregon, in percussionist Dave Storrs' studio/garage, it's happening; away from the clamor and hubbub of the big city, far removed from the restrictive, profit-minded corporate thinking, a small jazz label is giving birth to unfettered sounds, undiluted, non-pasteurized free jazz, and then some.Louie Records, Dave Storrs' labor of loveThe Rich Halley Trio's latest on Louie. Objects mines the vein of improvisation to form a sort of Northwest Zen-Bop sound, with the leader ...

Rich Halley Trio: Objects

by Jim Santella
June 1, 2002

Each member of Rich Halley's improvising trio participates equally in this session of free activity. Theirs is an avant-garde adventure intended to evoke some impressionistic value to each piece. While Halley's song titles mean very little at the outset, they allow the listener to attach meaning to the music. Since “Objects" is filled with motion and various textures, it tends to relay the energy found in a room full of dancing swingers; or head-bobbing members of the trio's audience. The ...

Rich Halley Trio: Objects

by Dave Nathan
May 19, 2002

It never ceases to amaze the type of person that ends up as a jazz musician. Rich Halley was educated as a field biologist but instead of being out among the flora, fauna and wild animal kingdom, he has been in the recording studio for more than 15 years creating a portfolio of free, avant-garde and creative improvisional music. Objects is his second release for the adventurous Corvallis, Oregon Louie label. While bursting with the vitality and imagination of free ...