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Chris Speed / Chris Cheek / Stephane Furic Leibovici: Jugendstil
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Everything about this extraordinary album, Jugendstil, is deliberate and attains its own level of perfection. To begin with, there is its name: The word Jugendstil (German for “youth style," akin to the French “art nouveau" movement of the late nineteenth century) is so apt, considering that it defines the music contained in this record. For instance ...
John Hollenbeck: A Blessing
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'aspetto di A Blessing che più colpisce al primo ascolto è il lungo snodarsi delle linee melodiche, lontano dalla stringatezza percussiva tipica del jazz per big band. I suoi temi avvolgono ipnotici, quasi minimalisti, costruiti su cellule che sviluppano lente e inesorabili, affidate a insiemi strumentali tipici della scrittura di Gil Evans e altri arrangiatori bianchi ...
Chris Speed: Playing For The Team
by Tom Greenland
Human Feel Galore Skirl 2007 Chris Speed has been perking up audience ears since the early 1990s, when he and a talented coterie of Boston music students descended on Manhattan to test their mettle in the downtown scene. One of the important outgrowths of this camaraderie was Human ...
Galore
By Chris Speed
Label:
Released: 2007
Track listing: 1. Tap Master (Speed/Black/D’Angelo/Rosenwinkel) - 0:52; 2. After the Fact (Hilmar Jensson) - 5:34; 3. Fuss (Speed) - 3:47; 4. Cat Heaven (Speed) - 6:19; 5. Improve (Black) - 4:39; 6. Fuck the Development of You (D’Angelo) - 18:47; 7. Serenade (Rosenwinkel) - 8:25; 8. Apch Ro Ha (D’Angelo) - 6:00; 9. Allegiance (Speed) - 4:20.
Human Feel: Galore
by AAJ Italy Staff
A vent’anni esatti dalla nascita e a più di dieci dall’ultima pubblicazione ufficiale (Speak to It del 1996), torna a farsi vivo il quartetto Human Feel; e lo fa licenziando un disco riuscito, vitale, intenso, che sembra voler racchiudere l’immenso patrimonio di esperienze accumulato dai membri, nel frattempo ascesi al rango di stelle di prima grandezza, ...
Skirl Records Visits Philadelphia
by Edward Zucker
We are in a period when more and more people download their music via the internet; important retailers such as Tower Records are shutting their doors; and blank CDs outsold pre-recorded CDs last year. Yet, Chris Speed--a multi-instrumentalist and longtime member of New York's downtown scene--has undertaken the Herculean task of starting an independent record label ...
Plunge
By Chris Speed
Label:
Released: 2006
Track listing: 01. Plunge (Speed) - 4:39;
02. Tina (De Rossi) - 6:42;
03. The Daniel Quinn Theme (De Rossi) - 3:47;
04. Audio Bongo (Norman) - 1:34;
05. Zakaz (De Rossi) - 6:03;
06. Freezy (Speed) - 4:22;
07. Fujiyama (Brubeck) - 2:33;
08. Petunia (De Rossi) - 2:54;
09. Singer (De Rossi) - 5:14
10. Ida Y Vuelta (Senni) - 3 :34;
11. Abracadabra (De Rossi) - 1:53;
12. Cristo Redentor (Pearson) - 3:04.
An AAJ Interview with Chris Speed
by AAJ Staff
In an effort to avoid having their work artistically typecast, many musicians have chosen to incorporate a variety of styles into their own vernacular. Although this frequently results in fascinating results, there are several distinct challenges and problems with the eclectic approach. The first is simply that of failing to convince, perhaps better stated as a ...
Zeno De Rossi Sultry: Plunge
by AAJ Italy Staff
A distanza di quattro anni dall'esordio, il trio Sultry del batterista Zeno De Rossi pubblica il secondo capitolo con la nuova etichetta El Gallo Rojo Records. La formazione base (Chris Speed al tenore e clarinetto, Stefano Senni al contrabbasso e De Rossi alla batteria) è rimasta la stessa ma si aggiungono due nuovi ospiti: il tastierista ...
Swell Henry
By Chris Speed
Label: Squealer
Released: 2004
Track listing: She Has Four Thorns; Last Beginning; Born In The Air; Camper Giorno; Cloud Stopper; Flanked; He Has A Pair Of Dice; Dead Water; Staircase Genius; Kip Files
