Results for "Chris Hoffman"

Chris Hoffman

Dance of the Mystic Bliss

By Michael Blake

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Merle the Pearl; Le Coeur du Jardin (The Heart of the Garden); Little Demons; Love Finally Arrives; Topanga Burns; Sagra; Prune Pluck Pangloss; The Meadows; Weeds; Cleopatra.

Eye of I

By James Brandon Lewis

Label: Anti-
Released: 2023
Track listing: Foreground; Someday We'll All Be Free; The Blues Still Blossoms; Middle Ground; Eye Of I; Within You Are Answers; Womb Water; Background; Send Seraphic Beings; Even The Sparrow; Fear Not (feat. The Messthetics)

James Brandon Lewis: Jesup Wagon

by Mark Corroto
May 14, 2021

Most listeners have long since moved saxophonist James Brandon Lewis from the rising star category to one labeled virtuoso. But then, pianist Matthew Shipp signaled this status when he mentored Lewis early on and certainly bassist William Parker ordained his arrival by recording with the saxophonist on his major label debut, Divine Travels (Okeh, 2014). Parker ...

James Brandon Lewis & Red Lily Quintet: Jesup Wagon

by Vic Albani
May 3, 2021

Erano anni che il jazz attendeva un lavoro come questo. Splendido nella totale sua interezza, capace di riportare “il jazz nel jazz" dopo tanti anni e tante nuove incisioni che i critici hanno valutato con attenzione e spesso incensate come lo sforzo creativo del guardare avanti, pur “rimanendo nobilmente avvinghiati alla tradizione" e via di conserva. ...

Tony Malaby: Turnpike Diaries

by Dave Kaufman
February 3, 2021

COVID-19 has decimated the live music business and left many jazz musicians without the much-needed income from gigs. The absence of live music has been partially compensated for by livestream performances and a small number of outdoor gigs, including those supported by the Arts for Arts group. Nevertheless, feel-good stories have been few and far between ...

Josh Sinton's Predicate Trio: Making Bones, Taking Draughts, Bearing Unstable Millstones Pridefully, Idiotically, Prosaically

by Glenn Astarita
February 27, 2019

Bass clarinetist and baritone saxophonist Josh Sinton (Ideal Bread, Nate Wooley Quintet, Adam Hopkins' Crickets) has always been a tenacious improviser, and with his new trio bridges the gap between post-modernism, raw experimentalism and core jazz fundamentals. Featuring all-universe drummer Tom Rainey and cellist Chris Hoffman--admired for his work with cutting-edge music acolyte Henry Threadgill and ...

Lookout Road (vol.I)

By Ryan Anselmi

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: Arma Two Step; Prairie Sky; Let The Light; Wichita; Battle of Mine Creek / Bull Creek Run Down; Southern Course.

LABtrio: Nature City

by Henning Bolte
March 23, 2017

When you consider the ages of the musicians of this trio from Belgium (26, 28 and 30 years) you notice it is a young group. When you take into account the decade these three musicians, bassist Anneleen Boehme, drummer Lander Gyselinck and pianist Bram de Looze, have been working together, you can only come to the ...

Tony Malaby: Scorpion Eater

by Giuseppe Segala
February 16, 2015

Tubacello: un bel sincretismo lessicale per definire l'organico riunito da Tony Malaby in occasione di questo Scorpion Eater. L'accoppiata di tuba e violoncello (che con il termine tubacello diventano un unico strumento, fantastico) viene scelta dal sassofonista in sostituzione del contrabbasso e dà vita a una formazione di marcata duttilità, in grado di affrontare con efficacia ...