Jazz Articles about Rich Johnson

Rich Johnson: Up the Turret Mil

by Nic Jones
March 23, 2009

Trumpeter Rich Johnson might be said to be engaging with the present; in a way, that's true of so few of his contemporaries. He produces music that's steeped in the culture of sampling, and similar examples of magpie-like curiosity. At the same time, he fashions music that is as striking as anything out there. This is an achievement that might be modest, especially in these days of seemingly diminishing musical returns. But Up the Turret Mil still bodes well for ...

Rich Johnson: Up The Turret Mil

by Lyn Horton
March 15, 2009

Voices tell stories; they penetrate their surroundings so that the stories warrant attention. They may have a subject that is self-referential, these are the times it is interesting to follow the flow.

No clearer can it be than in Up The Turret Mil from trumpeter Rich Johnson. This record may be publicized as experimental, but perhaps a better categorization is multi-media because it includes several levels of sound making: acoustic, electronic, and mixing of samples in perfect balance, offering more ...

Rich Johnson: Up the Turret Mil

by Mark F. Turner
January 29, 2009

Rich Johnson's first solo release delicately meshes acoustic instruments (acoustic guitar, piano and trumpet) with technology (laptop computer and sampling) to create a fascinating collage of sound. Like seminal artists, the New York based musician is adept in both traditional and nontraditional idioms as witnessed on saxophonist Jason Rigby's Translucent Space (Fresh Sound, 2006) and on the music duo Opsvik and Jennings' Commuter Anthems (Rune Grammofon, 2007). Though Up the Turret Mil follows the evolving electronica ideas, ...

Rich Johnson: Up The Turret Mil

by Mark Corroto
January 23, 2009

If something exists in the netherworld, it is said to be “living in hereafter," or the “afterworld." This ethereal theme, with its delicate, vaporous connotations is the subject matter of trumpeter Rich Johnson's Up The Turret Mil.While not a native of the Netherlands in either possible connotation, this New York artist produces sounds from somewhere beyond music, a region located between sound and feeling. His early training was in classical trumpet, before studying jazz at the Manhattan School ...