Results for "Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen"

Article: Album Review

Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen: The Satie Project II

by Maurizio Zerbo
March 7, 2014

Più che un mero omaggio a Erik Satie, Dan Willis opera una superba ristrutturazione delle già rivoluzionarie partiture originali mediante l'aggiunta di parti composte per l'occasione. Il musicista statunitense si conferma così autorevole esponente contemporaneo di una musicalità trasversale, aperta alle contaminazioni. È sufficiente l'ascolto del brano di apertura, “Gnossienne # 7," per rendersi conto di ...

Article: Album Review

Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen: The Satie Project

by Raul d'Gama Rose
October 12, 2010

French composer Erik Satie (1866--1925), a contemporary of Claude Debussy, was often scorned and, had it not been for his friend, Debussy would have been largely ignored as well by his generation. Debussy not only supported Satie, but championed his work as well, and saw to it that some very forward thinking pieces, such as the ...

Video

Second Gnoissienne

Featuring the music of Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen
Duration: 6:57
October 12, 2010

Dan Willis and his Velvet Gentlemen ensemble perform "Second Gnoissiene," from the multi-reedman's The Satie Project (Daywood Drive, 2010), an album that reinvents the music of classical composer Erik Satie for a jazz context...and the 21st Century.