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Harris Eisenstadt: From Mbalax to Canada Day
by Clifford Allen
Over the past decade, drummer, bandleader and composer Harris Eisenstadt has been a force in improvised music, active in both Los Angeles and New York (where he now resides). It's a testament to his creativity and energy that his ensembles have run the gamut from free-bop in the vein of post-Blue Note small groups, to orchestral ...
Gerry Hemingway Twofer: Less is More & Demon Chaser
by Kurt Gottschalk
WHO Trio Less is More Clean Feed 2009 Gerry Hemingway Quintet Demon Chaser hatOLOGY 2009 Much seems to have gone down in the decade since Michel Wintsch, Gerry Hemingway and ...
Mauger in the Elm City October 2
(photo by Scott Friedlander)The trio of Mark Dresser (bass), Gerry Hemingway (drums, percussion) and Rudresh Mahanthappa (alto saxophone), collectively known as Mauger, performs 2 sets (8:30 and 10 p.m.) of exciting new works and improvisations Friday October 2 as part of the Firehouse 12 Fall 09 Concert Series.Dresser and Hemingway ...
The Art of Listening: A Sense of Place
by AAJ Staff
By Gerry Hemingway I am writing to offer my insights about the experience of listening from the perspective of being a musician. The art of listening is, of course, a somewhat open-ended topic that, for the sake of this article, will concentrate primarily on a few points of what I have observed and can ...
Gerry Hemingway Quintet: "Demon Chaser" on Hatology 673
Gerry Hemingway Quintet: Demon Chaser on Hatology 673 Michael Moore –alto saxophone, clarinet & bass clarinet Wolter Wierbos –trombone Mark Dresser –double bass Ernst Reijseger –cello Gerry Heminway –drums, steel drums A live concert recording at Ottenbrucher Bahnhof, Wuppertal-Elberfeld on March 2nd, 1993. With Demon Chaser, Gerry Hemingway ...
AllAboutJazz-New York August 2009 Issue Now Available!
One of the more compelling facets of jazz as a musical form is the pliability of its practitioners. Unlike most classical musicians who play scores written for them or rockers who are serial monogamists when it comes to bands, jazz players, for reasons both artistic and economic, usually exist simultaneously as leaders and sidemen. Some start ...
Gerry Hemingway Quintet: Demon Chaser
by Troy Collins
Demon Chaser, which documents a live concert recorded at Ottenbrucher Bahnhof in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany on March 2nd, 1993, stands tall in drummer Gerry Hemingway's discography as one of the finest achievements of his celebrated transatlantic quintet. This is its second printing. Synchronous with the dissolution of the classic Anthony Braxton quartet of the late ...
Lisa Sokolov: A Quiet Thing
by Donald Elfman
No song is a simple thing in Lisa Sokolov's hands, for she delves into the magical possibilities of the voice and the beauty and mystery of words. Her third album, A Quiet Thing, extends the power of her earlier recordings, continuing her progression towards the majestic and ecstatic “silence" of the universe. She bills her new ...
Herb Robertson: Abandon in the Moment
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Amid a whorl of scraped cello, tenor sax squawks, and bass clarinet blats, trumpeter Herb Robertson paused, his eyes closed in concentration. With NSA-like hearing ability, he pierced the action with a bracing note that crystallized the unfurling improvisation. The intent listening and bold responses displayed during saxophonist Lotte Anker's January show at The Stone typify ...
Gerry Hemingway: Buffalo Pearl & Kinetics
by Stuart Broomer
John Butcher/ Gerry Hemingway Buffalo Pearl Auricle 2008 Gerry Hemingway/ Thomas Lehn Kinetics Auricle 2008 Gerry Hemingway isn't restricted by any particular concept of the drummer. He's ...
