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Chris Cheek

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Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Chris Cheek, the son of a junior high school band director, began playing the alto sax at the age of 12. Chris played in a variety of local Jazz and Blues bands in the St. Louis area while attending Webster University. In 1988, on scholarship, he went to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts where he studied with Joe Viola and Hal Crook, eventually receiving a bachelors degree in performance. Chris moved to New York in 1992 and since then has played and recorded with a number of different groups including: Paul Motian's "Electric Bebop Band", "The Bloomdaddies", Charlie Haden's "Liberation Music Orchestra", The Brian Blade Fellowship, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Luciana Souza, David Berkman, and Guillermo Klein's "Los Guachos"

Album

Keepers of the Eastern Door

Label: Analog Tone Factory
Released: 2025
Track listing: Kino’s Canoe; Smoke Rings; O Sacrum Convivium!; On A Clear Day; Lost Is My Quiet; From Me To You; Keepers Of The Eastern Door; Go On, Dear.

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Article: Album Review

Jody Redhage Ferber / Alan Ferber / Mark Ferber: Confluence

Read "Confluence" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Cellist Jody Redhage Ferber has been at the forefront of creative music for two decades, effectively straddling the line between jazz and classical settings. Her husband, celebrated trombonist Alan Ferber, is one of this genre's premiere large group composers, having garnered multiple Grammy nominations and topped polls with both his nonet and big band. His twin ...

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Article: Album Review

Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos: Boreal

Read "Boreal" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Portugal's Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos and Spanish saxophonist Perico Sambeat are no strangers. The two first collaborated on a concert back in 2007. Then they joined forces in 2021 to explore Ornette Coleman's work. Now, continuing to develop their relationship, they bring Iberian ideals and modernity to the fore on Boreal. Sambeat is ...

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Article: Interview

Chris Cheek: Songs Of Inspiration And Atonement

Read "Chris Cheek: Songs Of Inspiration And Atonement" reviewed by Frank Housh


Chris Cheek's Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory, 2025) was inspired by the suffering and resilience of Native Americans. Cheek grew up in the area of Cahokia Mounds World Heritage & State Park, the largest pre-Columbian site north of Mexico. In his book 1491: New Revelations Of The Americas Before Columbus (Knopf, ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ines Velasco, Chris Cheek, Emi Makabe, Matteo Paggi & More

Read "Ines Velasco, Chris Cheek, Emi Makabe, Matteo Paggi & More" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Enjoy another dispatch of recent and upcoming releases, full of gems by emerging and established masters like Vincent Peirani, Chris Cheek, Ines Velasco, Myra Melford, Emi Makabe, and Matteo Paggi.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Vincent Peirani “Physical Attraction" Living Being IV (Time Reflections) ...

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Article: Album Review

Chris Cheek: Keepers of the Eastern Door

Read "Keepers of the Eastern Door" reviewed by David Weiner


In Keepers of the Eastern Door, saxophonist Chris Cheek leads a beautifully played, richly melodic and creatively curated set of performances, which split the difference between enchantment and fun. Cheek and his bandmates--Bill Frisell on guitar, Tony Scherr on bass, and Rudy Royston on drums--offer a mix of distinctive Cheek originals and unexpected takes on works ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases from Cassani, Cheek, Cline & More

Read "New Releases from Cassani, Cheek, Cline & More" reviewed by Bob Osborne


A multi-national set of albums of releases this time around, mostly new, but also including a look back at the older work of some current leading lights of the jazz world. Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Roberto Cassani and Graeme Stephen “Empty Chair" from Pictish Spaghetti (577 Records) 00:28 Chris Cheek “Smoke Rings" from Keepers ...

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Article: Interview

Emilio Solla: Uncovering Music Already There

Read "Emilio Solla: Uncovering Music Already There" reviewed by Dean Nardi


In the '40s, the jazz scene was dominated by bebop with its roots in swing music, formerly the purview of the big band era. Trios and quartets became the combo of choice for players such as Charlie “Yardbird" Parker and Thelonious Monk, who took the harmonies of the old jazz and superimposed them on chord substitutions, ...

Album

Up High, Down Low

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: In Hindsight.


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