Results for "Ben Dillinger"

Ben Dillinger

Life & Umbrella

Label: Desafio Candente
Released: 2023
Track listing: Thoughts Unable To Be Contained; The Happiness Of Hope; Imaginary Friend; Brain Check; Umbrella; Resilience Cycle; This Is What They Found; Life; Interior World; Different Tempos; Choices; Future, Umbrella, And Life.

Firetet

By Constantine Alexander

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Show; IDKY; Fire; Waltzin’ Long; Frequent Flyer; Forever and Always; Deez.

Constantine Alexander: Firetet

by Jack Bowers
December 12, 2023

On his debut recording, Firetet, Chicago-based trumpeter Constantine Alexander pays tribute to Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, the late great Clifford Brown and modern-day disciples Nicholas Payton and Sean Jones. Alexander does not do so by imitating anyone--that would be fruitless--but the swinging spirit of Blakey, Brown and the present-day artists already noted is ever- present on ...

Javier Red: Life & Umbrella

by Mike Jurkovic
May 29, 2023

The secret behind Life & Umbrella is that Chicago-based, Mexican-born pianist/composer Javier Red is a studied composer who puts a great deal of thought into the music he presents, both to his peers and to the world. But that music never feels calculated like an equation with an obvious answer. Just the exact opposite. So it ...

Javier Red's Imagery Converter: Life & Umbrella

by Hrayr Attarian
April 2, 2023

Chicago pianist Javier Red and his quartet, Imagery Converter, follow their stimulating debut Ephemeral Certainties (Delmark, 2019) with the equally superb Life & Umbrella. Red dedicates the current release to spreading love and understanding for individuals with autism. The dozen originals which comprise it do not have traditional starting and ending heads, as concepts flow from ...

Javier Red's Imagery Converter: Ephemeral Certainties

by Troy Dostert
October 10, 2019

Pianist Javier Red hails from Mexico, but since 2015 he's been part of the ever-dynamic Chicago jazz scene, enabling him to team up with three other Windy City-based colleagues on Ephemeral Certainties, the debut disc from a band he calls Imagery Converter. With a shared commitment to finding purpose through diverse melodic fragments and disparate rhythmic ...