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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.
Favourite Releases of 2019
by Maurice Hogue
This episode features some of my favourite recordings released in 2019, chosen from a year of some pretty damn fine music. It always seems that I tend toward bassist-led sessions, and that's the case again, with great recordings from Carlos Bica, Torbjorn Zetterberg and the Miles Perkin Quartet for starters. As well, more women artists appear ...
Zeno De Rossi Trio al Pinocchio di Firenze
by Neri Pollastri
Zeno De Rossi Trio Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 14.12.2019 A cinque anni dal concerto di presentazione del loro primo disco Kepos (clicca qui per leggerne la recensione), il trio di Zeno De Rossi è tornato sul palco del Pinocchio Jazz, stavolta a presentare il suo secondo lavoro, Elpis, in uscita il ...
Respect for your Toughness
By Chris Speed
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Can This Be Love?; Attention Flaws; Helicopter Lineman; Faint Tune; Respect for Your Toughness; Taborn to Run; Strobe Dots; Casa Adela; Yard Moon; Transporter.
Focus!
By Billy Mohler
Label: Make Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Deconstruction; Distant Star; Praire Flower; Wolf Moon; Van's Jam; Even Tide; Visible Light; Coin.
Black Friday TRiO
By Billy Mohler
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Evolution; Fifth House; Deconstruction; Mr. Day; Wolf Moon.
Céline Bonacina, Keith Jarrett, Carla Marciano and More New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
Another week repleate with deliciuos new releases, from those of European jazz queens Céline Bonacina, Yazz Ahmed and Carla Marciano, to the Pan-African manifesto of Russell Gunn's Royal Krunk Jazz Orkestra, to the collaborative trios of Ben Perowsky—-John Medeski—Chris Speed, Zach Brock—Matt Ulery—Jon Deitemyer, and Alban Darche—Matthieu Donarier—Meivelyan Jacquot, not to mention the latest by Keith ...
Junius Paul, Alexandra Grimal & Fay Victor
by Maurice Hogue
The concert tapes for the recent release of Sun Ra & The Arkestra recorded live in Poland in 1986 were sitting in a dusty basement in Kalisz, Poland all this time. Now recovered and mastered to today's standards, there's a worthy addition to Sun Ra's voluminous discography. On this week's show you'll hear a pair of ...
Lisa Hoppe, Sorey & Crispell, Gebhard Ullman and More
by Maurice Hogue
This episode is very wide-ranging in styles and sounds; the boundaries keep expanding. I was very impressed with bassist Lisa Hoppe's new trio, Third Reality, with saxophonist David Leon and guitarist Tal Yahalom. Very original stuff! It's on a German label—Jazzhausmusik—so do some digging to find it. It's well worth the effort. Drummer, composer and influencer ...
Larry Willis + Tomeka Reid, Ghost Horse, Matana Roberts & Other New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
This week we remember pianist Larry Willis (1942—2019) who passed away in September, followed by the perusal of a pile of exciting new releases and re-relases building jazz bridges between North America and Europe, featuring Midnight Lilacs (i.e. Chris Speed, Marc Ribot, Danilo Gallo and Zeno De Rossi), Ethan Iverson Quartet with Tom Harrell, Simone Graziano, ...
