Results for "Gregg Belisle-Chi"

Tribute Mary Lou Williams, PIano Trio Smorgasbord, Guitar Mental Block

by David Brown
February 1, 2022

This week, a birthday wish for a forgotten Philly singer, a super set of piano trios featuring a new tribute to Mary Lou Williams. I work out my issues with jazz guitar with some ear opening duets, and more. Old, new, in, out... wherever the music takes us. Each week, we will explore the elements of ...

Mark Sullivan's Favorite Recordings of 2021

by Mark Sullivan
January 11, 2022

2021 may have been a year best forgotten in many ways, as the pandemic continued to make “normal life" look like a distant memory. There was a brief bright spot after the introduction of the vaccines, only to be crushed by the emergence of the Delta variant, then the Omicron. Yet somehow there was plenty of ...

Tim Berne / Gregg Belisle: Mars

by Dan McClenaghan
December 31, 2021

Mars inspires. That blood-red eye orbiting the sun this side of Jupiter served as a muse for Gustav Holtz in the “Mars" portion of his Planets Suite (1916); H.G Wells conjured giant three-legged machines from Mars, wielding death rays and attempting to destroy the Earth; Edgar Rice Burroughs sent John Carter to Barsoom (Mars), where the ...

Mars

By Tim Berne

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Giant Squids; Middle Seat Blues; Not What You Think They Are; Dark Shadows; Palm Sweat; Rabbit Girl; Big Belly; Frosty; Microtuna; Gastrophobia; Purdy; Rose Bowl Charade.

Koi: Performing the music of Tim Berne

By Gregg Belisle-Chi

Label: Screwgun Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Chance; Three Whisky Exception; Trauma One; Giant Squids; Huh Brokelyn; Middle Seat Blues; Huevos; Reception; Starfish Blues; Sequins.

More Pandemic Duets And Other New Releases

by Bob Osborne
July 15, 2021

On this week's show more of the outstanding Pandemic Duets curated by Stephen Gauci together with a selection of brand new releases including featured albums from Luciana Morelli, Noa Fort, Peace Flag Ensemble and Gregg Belisle-Chi interpreting the music of Tim Berne. We kick off the show with the Joel Frahm Trio.Playlist Joel Frahm ...

Ray Russell Plus New Releases From Ears&Eyes

by Bob Osborne
October 15, 2020

This week we feature a selection of mostly new releases including the recent one from guitar legend Ray Russell who has enjoyed two distinct careers: one as an esteemed session player and award-winning film and television composer, another as an ingenious guitar experimentalist and free-thinking collaborator. There are also some new albums from the ears&eyes label ...

Gregg Belisle-Chi

Book of Hours

By Gregg Belisle-Chi

Label: ears&eyes Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Aurora; Kyrie; Zur; Gloria; Credo; Dusk; Sanctus; Agnus Dei.

Gregg Belisle-Chi: Book of Hours

by Friedrich Kunzmann
July 15, 2019

"If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art." This opinion, from Arnold Schönberg, comes to mind when confronted with the first couple of minutes of New York-based guitarist Gregg Belisle-Chi's third outing as a leader. Structure and tonality are absent from the get-go. The careful ...