Results for "Bruce Ackley"

Bruce Ackley

Rova Saxophone Quartet at Bop Stop

by John Chacona
October 12, 2022

Rova Saxophone Quartet Bop Stop at the Music Settlement Cleveland, OHOctober 4, 2022 One of the inescapable trends in music over the last decade has been the convergence of two traditions in improvised music, one that was created in the African diaspora and another that evolved in European art music. Classifications ...

Bruce Ackley / Fred Frith / Henry Kaiser / Aram Shelton: Unexpected Twins

by John Sharpe
December 20, 2019

Sometimes looking back can be a cause of regret, but it can sometimes inspire. Happily the latter is the case with Unexpected Twins by the doubled instrumentation of guitarists Henry Kaiser and Fred Frith and saxophonists Bruce Ackley and Aram Shelton. The original Twins emerged from the early free improvisation scene in North America in 1977, ...

Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2018, Part 1

by Mike Chamberlain
May 21, 2018

Part 1 | Part 2 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 17-18, 2018 Keeping a middle-aged festival such as the Festival International de Musique Actualle de Victoriaville fresh and relevant is a challenge, but the program for this year's 34th edition of FIMAV assembled by ...

Dan Blake: The Digging

by Neri Pollastri
April 3, 2017

Album interessante per trasversalità stilistica e uno spirito di ricerca che emerge fin dal titolo, questo The Digging è opera del sassofonista Dan Blake, accompagnato in trio senza pianoforte dal contrabbassista Dmitry Ishenko, con il quale ha una lunga collaborazione, e dall'ottima batterista Eric Harland. Blake è autore di tutte le composizioni e vi ...

Stefano Scodanibbio: Incontri & Reuniones

by Alberto Bazzurro
January 17, 2017

Di Stefano Scodanibbio, contrabbassista marchigiano (Macerata, 1956) scomparso anzitempo all'inizio del 2012 in quel di Cuernavaca (come trentatré anni prima quasi esatti un certo Mingus, già), questo album di oltre un'ora e un quarto di durata raccoglie diciassette pezzi incisi dal vivo nelle località più disparate e con i partner più disparati fra il 1996 e ...

Larry Ochs: The Celestial Septet & We All Feel The Same Way

by Marc Medwin
February 28, 2010

ROVA Sax Quartet/Nels Cline SingersThe Celestial SeptetNew World Records2010 Jones JonesWe All Feel The Same WaySoLyd2010 The synchronicity and boundless energy that separate great groupwork from everything else pervades these ...

Re-Imagining "Ascension"

by AAJ Staff
August 15, 2005

By Bruce Ackley Some of us still remember record stores where one could ask to hear something they'd never heard before. Imagine, the hunger to hear undiscovered sounds... In 1966 I was living in Cincinnati and headed to my local record shop with some friends to get some Coltrane music. ...

The Social/Science Set

By Bruce Ackley

Label: Emerald Green Sound
Released: 2002

The Hearing

By Bruce Ackley

Label: Avant
Released: 2001
Track listing: 1) Out of the Box 2) 1, 2, Radical 3 3) Juggernaut 4) Mr. Mood 5) JT 6) Syndrome 7) Serf Music 8) The Clear Sky 9) Actual Size 10) Ivan