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RelativE ResonancE: RelativE ResonancE
by Dave Wayne
The music of drummer and composer Devin Gray traverses terrains that will be familiar to those who've investigated artists such as Tyshawn Sorey and Steve Lehman. As complex and highly structured as Gray's music can be, there's a palpable human warmth throughout Relative Resonance which makes the music--in spite of its ultra-busy, highly demanding nature--kind of ...
RelativE ResonancE: RelativE ResonancE
by Budd Kopman
With RelativE ResonancE, composer and drummer Devin Gray has staked out new, exciting and different territory than that explored in his highly acclaimed previous album, Dirigo Rataplan. Whereas the earlier band (saxophonist Ellery Eskelin, trumpeter Dave Ballou and bassist Michael Formanek) emphasized improvisation within group and compositional boundaries, the music for the new group ...
Andy Milne & Dapp Theory: Forward In All Directions
by Dan Bilawsky
Can music be both sprawling and focused in nature? The aptly-titled Forward In All Directions says it can, and it says so in convincing fashion. Andy Milne, a distinguished M-Base alumnus who's worked with everybody from saxophonist Ravi Coltrane to harmonica heavy Gregoire Maret to singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn, doesn't draw borders in his ...
Chris Speed: Really OK
by Glenn Astarita
Saxophonist, clarinetist, Chris Speed has been in the thick of things the past several decades. He's been a co-conspirator in trendsetting ensembles led by alto saxophonists, composers Tim Berne, John Zorn, and leading-edge outfits Claudia Quintet and Pachora amid a host of other noteworthy projects. Speed's prominence in the newer realm of jazz and jazz improvisation ...
Michael Dessen Trio: Resonating Abstractions
by Robert Bush
Michael Dessen is a slide-trombone virtuoso and computer musician of the highest order, and the music his trio crafts on Resonating Abstractions showcases his work as a composer in compelling fashion. Key to this success are the contributions from singular double-bassist Chris Tordini and the multi-rhythmic drums of Dan Weiss. Together they realize and expand the ...
John Hollenbeck's September Songs
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
John Hollenbeck's productivity would be astonishing in its own right, but the uniformly high quality of this high output places the drummer among the top tier of jazz (and not only jazz) musicians. Hollenbeck's recordings, compositions and performances defy certain expectations. He can be as seriously intellectual as a stereotypically stuffy classical musician, but his music ...
Jazz on a Summer's Day 2013
by Phillip Woolever
Jazz on a Summer's DayKrefeld, GermanyJuly 13, 2013 The setting was historic, on the grounds of a 12th century castle. The program tilted toward tomorrow, with an ear for the future. That picturesque, present day progression made the 29th Jazz on a Summer's Day a timeless musical present for devoted fans in ...
Jazzklub Krefeld Hits A High Note For Summer
Jazzklub Krefeld, one of the Rhineland’s musical treasures, heads full steam into warm summer months with momentum from a successful spring season that upheld the company’s strong reputation around Western Germany’s vibrant jazz scene. July 13th brings the 29th edition of Jazzklub’s “Jazz on a Summer’s Day” spectacular, at the historic, medieval Burg Linn castle outside ...
Burlington Discover Jazz Festival: Burlington, VT, May 31-June 9, 2013
by Doug Collette
Burlington Discover Jazz Festival Burlington, VT May 31-June 9, 2013Swooping into Burlington off interstate 89 through a series of uninterrupted green lights seems a good metaphor for the transitional year of Burlington, Vermont's Discover Jazz Festival.It's a tribute to departed director Brian Mital, as well as incoming director Linda Little, ...
NYC Winter Jazzfest, Day 2: January 7, 2012
by Daniel Lehner
Day 1 | Day 22012 NYC Winter Jazzfest, Day 2New York, NYJanuary 7, 2012 Gregoire Maret The harmonica, like the accordion and other free reed aerophones, doesn't come with as much built-in room for expression as other wind instruments, which is what makes Gregoire Maret's playing so ...
