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Reggie Quinerly: New York Nowhere
by Chris M. Slawecki
Born in Houston, drummer Reggie Quinerly attended his hometown's famous High School of the Performing and Visual Arts. He then moved on to study under such masters as Jimmy Cobb, Lewis Nash, and Kenny Washington in the Masters in Jazz Studies program at Juilliard, and released his debut recording, Music Inspired by Freedmantown (Self Produced, 2012) soon after graduating. Quinerly composed New York Nowhere, his fourth release as a leader, as his farewell to the city he called ...
read moreSean Conly: Hard Knocks
by Glenn Astarita
This trio gives credence to the old saying that, too many cooks spoil the broth." Given the musicians' course of action, it would seem that additional instrumentalists may have gotten in the way of progress. This is due to the band's extreme agility coupled with a horde of alternative routes, undulating bop grooves, an uncluttered soundstage and tight unison outbreaks. And with Michaël Attias' fluid, whispery tones and venomous solo sprees, the trio's airtight scope of attack also includes melodic ...
read moreSean Conly / Michael Attias: Think Shadow
by Eyal Hareuveni
This is an intimate meeting between old friends. Bassist Sean Conlyand Michäel Attias who collaborated before on Conly's Re: Action (Clean Feed, 2012) and on Attias' recent Spun Tree (Clean Feed, 2012). But this recording features both musicians who work now as the Think Shadow duo. Here, they improvise on the spot, creating melody, rhythm, and harmony, searching for a mutual language. The fifteen duets are subdued and restrained. Conly and Attias leave enough space for each ...
read moreSean Conly: Re:Action
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il brano iniziale, il celeberrimo Gazzelloni" di Eric Dolphy, è l'unico non originale degli undici presenti ma fornisce chiare indicazioni su quale sarà il climax dell'intero album. Che sarà caratterizzato da musica rigorosa, che nulla concede allo spettacolo, si direbbe in termini calcistici, ma va subito al sodo, sfrondando leziosità e numeri da circo. Interprete di Re:Action, l'album in questione, un quartetto anomalo, ritmica e doppio sax, formato da due musicisti ormai affermati, Tony Malaby e Pheeroan Aklaff, e due ...
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by Clifford Allen
Bassist Sean Conly is an extraordinarily busy player, perhaps somewhat of a yeoman--he's worked with figures as diverse in approach as the violinists Sam Bardfeld and Regina Carter. But if he has a particular mettle, it might just be in the unruly, driving and highly plastic music of this ensemble. Conly, saxists Michael Attias and Tony Malaby and drummer Pheeroan akLaff take on on a program of ten originals and a cover of Eric Dolphy's Gazzelloni." There ...
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