Results for "Doug Wieselman"

Doug Wieselman

Amarcord Hal Willner

By LUDOVICO GRANVASSU

The iconic producer Hal Willner passed away a little over a week ago, on Tuesday 7 April 2020. The same day, John Prine and Eddy Davis also took off. It felt like a COVID-19-induced Black Tuesday for the music world, but maybe Hal had simply invited them to join him for a follow-up to Lost in ...

Trio S: Somewhere Glimmer

By STEFANO MERIGHI

Un piccolo ma delizioso disco, questo, del Trio S ovvero Doug Wieselman, Jane Scarpantoni e Kenny Wollesen, sodalizio di downtown New York che ogni tanto si incontra per produrre musiche di serena dolcezza, a metà strada tra un folk dei ricordi e una quieta improvvisazione. Il trio ha messo a punto in particolare una ...

Gina Leishman: This New York Life

By MICHAEL BLAKE

On the late summer afternoon I visited composer Gina Leishman, we couldn't meet in her apartment because it was under repair. A pipe had burst so a friend was loaning her apartment to Gina for a few days; one of those little studio apartments that New Yorkers manage to transform into what seems like a sprawling ...

Orange&Blue, and a glance at NYC's Downtown Jazz Scene

By LUDOVICO GRANVASSU

Orange and blue are two complimentary colors that go especially well together. They are also the colors that have inspired the music featured in this episode of Mondo Jazz, to celebrate Radio Free Brooklyn's move into its gorgeous orange and blue studio. This episode of Mondo Jazz also features an exclusive interview with the ...

Somewhere Glimmer

By DOUG WIESELMAN

Label: Zitherine Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: Sesto; New River; That Way; Piper Hill 3; Dreambox; Metal in Wood; Hallucination of a Storm; Birdbath.

Trio S: Somewhere Glimmer

By GLENN ASTARITA

New York-based clarinetist, banjoist, Doug Wieselman (Lou Reed, Bill Frisell, Yuka Honda) is often immersed within the new music realm, including jazz and most of its offshoots. Highly in demand, the artist also composes for theater and TV. With Trio S' second release, he skirts the boundaries of ambient-electronic stylizations, jazz, folk and modern chamber, with ...

Hal Willner, Ex Eye, Bill Laswell, Zion 80 & Brandon Seabrook

By MARTIN LONGLEY

Hal Willner The Stone June 14, 15, 17, 2016 Hal Willner spent six nights in residence at The Stone, presenting two sets each evening. This Philadelphian producer has immaculate taste, as illustrated by his greatest achievements: a series of conceptual albums that feature a host of carefully selected artists, assigned ...

Henry Butler, Steven Bernstein and the Hot 9: Viper's Drag

By ANGELO LEONARDI

Cosa unisce la dissacrante verve di Steven Bernstein -estroverso leader dei Sex Mob e animatore di vari progetti con la Tzadik di John Zorn-col virtuosistico pianismo di Henry Butler, fortemente intriso di blues? Questa rilettura sul primo jazz di New Orleans è una delle risposte. La passione per la tradizione ha accomunato i due ...

DarkMatterHalo: Darkness Interrupted

By CLAUDIO BONOMI

Hardedge, all'anagrafe Velibor Pedevski, si definisce un sound designer. Non un sound designer qualsiasi. Hardedge è un architetto di suoni elettronici dotato di una sensibilità non comune. È capace di costruire scenari e affreschi apocalittici di una profondità siderale, e quasi mai disturbanti, che si reggono su autentiche colonne soniche. Potremmo definirlo un ...