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Amos Gillespie: Unstructured Time for Jazz Septet

by Richard J Salvucci
March 12, 2022

The premise of this interesting recording may well be summarized in the old Roman proverb, “Make haste, but slowly." Amos Gillespie is a Chicago-based composer and instrumentalist who has composed a nine-part jazz suite for a septet. In his own words, Unstructured Time is “about capturing childhood focus, creativity and peace through unstructured time." The title ...

Unstructured Time for Jazz Septet

By Amos Gillespie

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Shades of Red; Deconstructed; Like a Blossom; Nothing Changes; Tangerine Road; Sleepless; Fewer Words; Silence Is Your Own; Juiced.

Amos Gillespie: Unstructured Time for Jazz Septet

by Jack Bowers
December 23, 2021

Chicago-based composer/educator/alto saxophonist Amos Gillespie's CD, Unstructured Time, employs a variety of time signatures but is anything but unstructured--in fact, the opposite may reasonably be opined, as taut structure is clearly front and center on the album's four instrumental and five vocal numbers. In other words, “unstructured" in Gillespie's lexicon bears absolutely no resemblance to “free" ...