Results for "Gary Hassay"

Gary Hassay

The Most Beautiful Thing

by Michael Bisio
September 26, 2014

For me music is full of magic, mystery, spirituality, joy, passion and fire, blue to red, yet my journey to conceptualize finds me chasing the most objective truths I can discover, truths stripped of every aesthetic element possible. In High School during an intro to theory class my teacher announced: music is sound in time. We ...

Gary Hassay / Dan Dechellis / Tatsuya Nakatani: Beauty

by Jim Santella
May 4, 2009

Free music that casts a spell on you comes with a price. You are entitled to dream, imagine something different with every listen. Beauty takes many forms and everyone has their opinion. Alto saxophonist Gary Hassay, pianist Dan DeChellis and percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani show you their own ideas about beauty on this recent album.

Tribute to Paradise

By Gary Hassay

Label: Drimala Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: From the Beginning; Anodyne; Circle of Life.

Gary Hassay & Ellen Christi: Tribute to Paradise

by Ty Cumbie
February 12, 2006

Jazz artists who adhere strictly to a free improvising agenda are generally doomed to sacrifice wider recognition. Here are two perfect examples: Ellen Christi is among the finest jazz vocalists in New York. She's made a lovely, intimate duo recording with Gary Hassay, a saxophonist who has all the technique of his best contemporaries, plus a ...