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Dennis Gonzalez / Yells at Eels: Geographia
by Donald Elfman
Trumpeter Dennis González's tunes and improvisations are open and free-form, while still retaining a strong rhythmic pulse and forward motion. Evident, too, is a kind of Southwestern color that looks towards Mexico and Latin America. Yells at Eels is the name of a group he started with his sons, bassist Aaron and drummer Stefan.
Geographia
Label: Inner Realms Outer Realms
Released: 2006
Track listing: Ethereal Carpet Ride; Geografia; Elegy for a Slaughtered Democracy; Crow Soul; Mutation
Station; Document for William Parker.
Dennis Gonz: Idle Wild
by Germein Linares
As with his previous efforts, notably 2004's quartet NY Midnight Suite, Texas-born trumpeter Dennis González creates jazz steeped in life's various joys, anxieties, truths and wonders. González's works require time and patience for full appreciation as they unfold through various rhythms, melodies, and harmonies. This is a thinking person's jazz. Catchy riffs and clever hooks won't ...
Idle Wild
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Elechi - Elergy For Malachi Favors; Bush Medicine; Dust; Idle Wild; Song; Document
For Toshinori Kondo.
Dennis Gonzalez's Spirit Meridian: Idle Wild
by Mark Corroto
The second Dennis Gonzalez sighting on the Portuguese Clean Feed label solidifies his reputation with some remarkable writing and playing. He retains only drummer Michael Thompson from his first outing, NY Midnight Suite (2004). This studio session finds him in good company with bassist Fen Filiano and saxophonist Oliver Lake. The Texan trumpeter has ...
Dennis Gonz
by Jeff Stockton
Dennis González NY Quartet NY Midnight Suite Clean Feed 2005 After teaching for thirty years in the Dallas public school system, underground trumpeter Dennis González was asked in 2003 to participate in the FONT trumpet festival at Tonic. The back half of NY Midnight Suite is thirty minutes recorded live ...
NY Midnight Suite
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2004
Track listing: NY Midnight Suite: [III] Sketch the Wings of Midnight/ [II] Angels of the Dark Streets/ [I] Runaway Taxi Uptown/ Hymn for the Elders/ Dominant Fang/ New Short Song.
Dennis Gonzalez NY Quartet: NY Midnight Suite
by Derek Taylor
Internet chat boards remain places where all sorts of relationships take root. Even so it's not often that they're thought of as midwives for music. We have the Jazz Corner's Speakeasy to thank, at least in part, for the particular artistic partnership that resulted in this new Clean Feed compact disc. Trumpeter Dennis Gonzalez and saxophonist ...
Old Time Revival
Label: Entropy Stereo
Released: 2003
Track listing: The Matter at Hand; Document for Charles Brackeen; Hordes of the
Morning Star; Hymn for Albert Ayler; Four Moods for Carol; Old Time
Revival.
Dennis González: Old Time Revival
by Frank Rubolino
Dennis González consistently has shown the ability to brew a sorcerous concoction of gut-grabbing, throbbing music, and his latest effort with a star-studded lineup of musicians again works its magic. González presents a series of his compositions that demonstrates his unique methodology for combining infectious and rhythmic melody lines with wide open, unstructured improvisations, thus magnetically ...
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