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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
Chris Speed's Yeah NO: Swell Henry
by Eyal Hareuveni
Four years have passed since the last release by Chris Speed's Yeah NO quartet, Emit (Songlines, 2000). Speed has been busy in those years as a key player in the ensembles of Uri Caine, Dave Douglas, Myra Melford, Matt Moran and John Hollenbeck. He toured and played with three collaborative bands with overlapping personnel--the Balkan-tinged quartet ...
Dave Douglas: Brave New World
by AAJ Staff
Trumpeter / composer Dave Douglas has been creating new worlds for listeners for the past decade. His ethereal writing style for unconventional configurations transports audiences into unfamiliar territory. These distinctive compositions combined with his astonishing technique and expressionist improvisations have brought him critical and public acclaim as a visionary of his generation. The diversity of his ...
Chris Speed: Emit
by Glenn Astarita
With his fourth solo CD, saxophonist/clarinetist Chris Speed continues his distinct assault on modern jazz as Emit may in fact represent the artist’s finest achievement as a leader thus far. Along with three of his longtime band mates from the peppery Balkan based band, “Pachora”, Speed and trumpeter Cuong Vu make for an auspicious front line ...
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