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Chris Speed
Chris Speed is a composer, clarinetist and saxophonist living in Brooklyn, NY. His bands include Human Feel, yeah NO, Trio Iffy , Pachora and The Clarinets. He is a member of Jim Black’s Alas No Axis and John Hollenbeck’s Claudia Quintet. Speed was born in Seattle in 1967 and graduated from the New England Conservatory in 1990. In 1992 he moved to NYC where he joined Tim Berne’s Bloodcount. Throughout the nineties Speed worked with many pioneering bands in the creative new music/downtown scene including the Dave Douglas Sextet, Myra Melford’s Same River Twice, Erik Freidlander’s Chimera, John Zorn’s Bar Kokhba and Mark Dresser’s trio with Anthony Coleman. During this time he also began pursuing his interest in East European folk music, forming Pachora in 1992, and traveling throughout Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Syria, and Macedonia. Speed is considered one of the leading NYC musicians linking jazz and creative improvisation with Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. Currently, he works with Uri Caine’s Bach, Mahler, and Mozart projects, as well as Ben Perowsky’s quartet. Chris was named the rising star clarinetist in Downbeat magazine for 2004 and 2005. In July 2004 he was the special guest at the Copenhagen International Jazz Festival, working with ten different cutting edge Danish groups. In April 2006, he launched Skirl Records, a label dedicated to Brooklyn based creative music.
Peter Lenz: Breathe
by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo aver espresso ottime doti di strumentista e leader col quintetto Silent Flow e col quartetto Lithium, il batterista austriaco debutta con successo nel campo dell'orchestrazione, scegliendo di operare con tre differenti organici: una big band di 17 elementi (nei brani “Enclouded" ed “Eleanor"), una big band ampliata a un quartetto d'archi (in “Between Lines" e ...
Believers: Hard Believer
by Vincenzo Roggero
Veterano della scena downtown newyorchese (da ricordare almeno il Dave Douglas Tiny Bell Trio, il quartetto Pachora con Jim Black, Chris Speed e Skuli Sverrisson, le collaborazioni con Carla Bley's Escalator Over the Hill, Charlie Haden's Liberation Orchestra, le registrazioni con Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band o il Paradox Trio con Matt Darriau, Rufus Cappadocia e ...
The Bad Plus at Jazz Alley
by Paul Rauch
The Bad Plus Jazz Alley Seattle, Washington May 13, 2025 The Bad Plus is a band, and a successful brand in the music world. They have a litany of successful recording and performance credits to their history, achieving amazing success while employing an approach to jazz that is perhaps odd and ...
Billy Mohler al Carambolage di Bolzano
by Giuseppe Segala
Billy Mohler Euro-American Quartet Piccolo Teatro Carambolage Bolzano 7 aprile 2025 Il nome di Billy Mohler può essere passato inosservato fino a qualche tempo fa. Probabilmente lo aveva incrociato solo chi segue le tracce di Chris Speed, Nate Wood o Shane Endsley, che dal 2019, anno della pubblicazione di Focus! ...
Billy Mohler: Emotions and Groove
by Vincenzo Roggero
Billy Mohler, a bassist with diverse musical experiences, is becoming an increasingly prominent presence in the ever-evolving and vibrant Los Angeles jazz scene. With the release of his latest album and an upcoming European tour, we took the opportunity to discuss various aspects of his artistic journey. All About Jazz: Let's start with The ...
Billy Mohler: Emozioni e Groove
by Vincenzo Roggero
Billy Mohler, contrabbassista dalle diversificate frequentazioni musicali, sta diventando una presenza sempre più importante nella scena sempre più in fermento di Los Angeles. Abbiamo approfittato dell'uscita del suo ultimo album e dell'imminente tour europeo con numerose date italiane (incluse nel calendario in calce all'articolo), per approfondire vari aspetti del suo percorso artistico. All About ...
Billy Mohler: The Eternal
by Vincenzo Roggero
Tre splendidi album (Focus! del 2019, Anatomy del 2022, e Ultraviolet del 2024) registrati con lo stesso quartetto--e che quartetto (il leader al contrabbasso, Nate Wood alla batteria, Chris Speed ai sassofoni, Shane Endsley alla tromba)--avevano portato alla ribalta il nome di Billy Mohler ben oltre i confini del mondo del pop/rock dove, con il gruppo ...
The Bad Plus at Bop Stop
by John Chacona
The Bad PlusBOP STOP at the Music SettlementCleveland, OHFebruary 7, 2025 Teachers of jazz--the good ones, at least--emphasize the importance of finding an individual sound. That goes for ensembles, too, and at their Friday appearance at Cleveland's Bop Stop, The Bad Plus demonstrated how, even with a radical overhauling of personnel ...
David Bailis: Tree Of Life
by Dan McClenaghan
Some jazz artists create distinctive sound worlds with their instruments and the bands they put together. In the “guitarist as leader" genre--on the popular music side), think Link Wray, Dick Dale, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Robbie Robertson. In jazz, think Wes Montgomery, Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny, Sangeeta Michael Berardi. All of these musicians have a sonic ...
