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General Semantics

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Air; Tioga Street Zenith; Last Important Heartbreak of the Year; Lamentation; Hit Flip Switch; General Semantics; Half the Fun; 3-4-5; 8 de Agosto; He Never Met a Stranger; Under and Over.

Geof Bradfield, Ben Goldberg, Dana Hall Trio: General Semantics

By TROY DOSTERT

A fortuitous meeting between veteran clarinetist Ben Goldberg and two up-and-coming stalwarts of the Chicago creative jazz scene, saxophonist Geof Bradfield and drummer Dana Hall, General Semantics is a tribute to the power of spontaneous interaction among like-minded musicians. Although Bradfield and Hall have worked together extensively since Bradfield's quintet album Our Roots (Origin Records, 2015), ...

Ephemeral Certainties

By JAVIER RED

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Minimal Pieces; Minimal Expansion; Recognizable Elements; Stretched Particle; Suspension; Balancing Fragments; Cycles; Saturation.

Elbio Barilari

Javier Red's Imagery Converter: Ephemeral Certainties

By TROY DOSTERT

Pianist Javier Red hails from Mexico, but since 2015 he's been part of the ever-dynamic Chicago jazz scene, enabling him to team up with three other Windy City-based colleagues on Ephemeral Certainties, the debut disc from a band he calls Imagery Converter. With a shared commitment to finding purpose through diverse melodic fragments and disparate rhythmic ...

Yes, and...Music for Nine Improvisers

By GEOF BRADFIELD

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Prelude; In Flux; Chorale; Impossible Charms: Ostinato; Anamneses; Chaconne; Forro Hermeto.

Geof Bradfield: Yes, and...Music for Nine Improvisers

By JEROME WILSON

The Compass Players was a legendary theatrical ensemble in Chicago whose members developed several improvisational games to stimulate their creative instincts. One of these was called “Yes, and..." where one person would start telling a story and everyone who followed would have to continue the story however they wished from the point the previous speaker ended. ...

Geof Bradfield: Yes, and...Music for Nine Improvisers

By TROY DOSTERT

Since the early 2000s, saxophonist and composer Geof Bradfield has been an integral part of the ever-fertile Chicago jazz scene, bringing his substantial talents to music that easily bridges the divide between the traditional and the avant-garde. His records have explored a remarkable range of styles and themes: from African Flowers (Origin Records, 2010), which traced ...

Lucille

By JASON STEIN

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Marshmallow; Halls And Rooms; Dexterity; Roused About; Ryder’s Uncle Dragon; Wow; Little Rootie Tootie; I Knew You Were; April.