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Susan Alcorn: Another Way
by Dom Minasi
If you are not into improvised music, you may not know Susan Alcorn. Take it from someone who has listened and played with her, she is a giant. I never heard of Susan till one Sunday night at the legendary CBGB's Sunday Night Avant-Garde series where she performed with tenor saxophonist, Joe Giardullo. I ...
Why Jazz?
by Dom Minasi
This is my first All About Jazz article since 2015. So much has happened to the world around us. I've been thinking a lot lately about my career choice and why I chose jazz and I wanted to hear why some of the best chose to devote themselves to a career in jazz. Here are their ...
New Albums From Posi-Tone, 577 Records, And Circum-Disc
by Bob Osborne
Mostly new albums this time around with new featured releases from Posi-Tone, the prolific 577 Records, and French imprint Circum-Disc. There's a variety of jazz forms included with some fascinating new approaches to the music.Playlist Alexa Tarantino “Rootless Ruthlessness" from Firefly (Positone) 00:00 Banausoi “Aeneas Tacticus" from Imagines (circum-disc) 07:46 Dom Minasi “Sucker's Paradise" ...
Dom Minasi: Eight Hands One Mind
by Hrayr Attarian
Restlessly innovative, guitarist Dom Minasi is a stalwart of the creative music scene. A brilliant improviser and composer, Minasi deftly utilizes his inventive ideas as launching points for his equally exciting extemporizations. On the unique Eight Hands One Mind, Minasi joins three other intrepid guitarists for a fiery and poignant tribute to another trailblazer, the late ...
Guitarist Jack DeSalvo: While We Sleep & Quintrepid on Unseen Rain
by Mark Sullivan
Guitarist/composer Jack DeSalvo has had a long, diverse career emphasizing fusion and free playing. His most visible gig was with Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, but since co-founding the record label Unseen Rain Records he has played on or produced a wide variety of music. For example, his duet album Soldani Dieci Anni (Unseen Rain Records, ...
Brown Eyes
Album: Freeland
By Dom Minasi
Label: Cirko Records
Released: 2019
Duration: 8:04
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Dom Minasi
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It’s not common to hear a guitarist mentioned in the same vein as adventurous players like Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and Cecil Taylor, but Dom Minasi is not your common type of guitarist. Like many highly creative artists, Dom needs a variety of contexts to express the full range of his musical vision by maintaining several separate groups, Born on March 6, 1943 (sharing a birthday with legendary guitarist Wes Montgomery), Dom is a 50-year veteran of the music scene, with a history and scope of activities as varied and jam-packed as his native New York City. Backing up top singing groups at rock 'n' roll shows, church dances and the like while still in his early teens, Dom has maintained a jazz trio with bass and drums since he was 15 years old
Freeland
By Dom Minasi
Label: Cirko Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Angela; Blues, Blues, Blues; Brown Eyes; Improv 1; Improv 2; Inside Out; Tritonal Ballad; Well You Needn’t.
Remembering Cecil
By Dom Minasi
Label: Unseen Rain Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Improv 1; Improv 2; Improv 3; Improv 4.
Dom Minasi: Remembering Cecil
by Hrayr Attarian
Innovative pianist Cecil Taylor, who passed away on April 5th 2018, was a transformative force in the world of improvisational music. His signature percussive pianism was imbued with dynamic poetry and he, together with saxophonist Ornette Coleman, is credited with starting the free jazz movement. Taylor has also been a source of inspiration for fellow New ...
