Results for "Delmark Records"

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

by Troy Dostert
December 16, 2020

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), ...

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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.

It's Too Hot For Words

By Metropolitan Jazz Octet

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2019

Elbio Barilari

Javier Red's Imagery Converter: Ephemeral Certainties

by Troy Dostert
October 10, 2019

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
August 2, 2018

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
July 6, 2018

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 ...

Flow

By Paul Giallorenzo

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: 1. a-frolick-ing (4:38) 2. fractures (5:26) 3. rolling (7:27) 4. interstice (5:46) 5. over/under (5:37) 6. flipd scrip (10:01) 7. darkness (6:39) 8. lightness (5:12) 9. a way we go (3:59)