Results for "James Chance"

James Chance

Xero, Chance & Lurie

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 29, 2024

Three new releases by John Lurie, Benjamin Herman and Fergus Quill give us the opportunity to pay tribute to three musicians whose no-holds-barred attitude significantly marked the scenes in New York and the UK in the 1980s, and now: Xero Slingsby, James Chance and Lurie.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. ...

Michael Leonhart Orchestra: Silent Night

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 15, 2023

Conceptually, I find holiday music puzzling. How can it be that, year after year, it keeps being churned out? Even by jazz musicians, who are usually not driven by commercial considerations? Then why not spring-break albums? Or something more meaningful like World Oceans Day jazz music? Or Martin Luther King day songs? I presume ...

Mac Gollehon: The End is the Beginning

by John Pietaro
February 26, 2022

From the opening moments of “As Your World Burns," Mac Gollehon's music embraces not simply the underground, but the underside. This collection of fleeting, gripping brass and dense atmosphere amounts to the lost score for the '70s-'80s noir film we've longed for, as nasty in its perfection as was the Manhattan of those years. Gollehon's trumpet ...

Moers Festival 2017

by Phillip Woolever
July 8, 2017

Moers Festival Moers, Germany June 5, 2017 Most questions and concerns regarding the present or future state of the Moers Festival could probably be answered just a few steps inside the staging grounds by looking at the smiling swarms. At the same time last year, such a scenario was much ...

Eivind Opsvik: Overseas V

by Nicola Negri
March 13, 2017

Quinto capitolo per il progetto Overseas di Eivind Opsvik, gruppo ad assetto variabile che il bassista, norvegese di nascita ma da anni residente a New York, ha utilizzato a partire dal 2002 per documentare il proprio percorso artistico. Dal 2005 Overseas si è attestato attorno al nucleo formato da Opsvik e Jacob Sacks (piano e tastiere) ...

James Chance and Les Contortions: Cologne, Germany, Germany, February 28. 2013

by Phillip Woolever
April 13, 2013

James Chance and Les ContortionsGebaude 9Cologne, GermanyFebruary 28, 2013James Chance--still influential after his role as a catalyst in New York City's seventies-based No Wave movement--proved his enduring career amidst the upper creative edges is no novelty act. Chance and his cohesive backing trio (bassist Jacques Auvergne, guitarist Pierre ...

Twist Your Soul - The Definitive Collection

By James Chance

Label: Warner Bros. Records
Released: 2010

Soul Exorcism (Redux)

By James Chance

Label: ROIR
Released: 2007
Track listing: Intro; Don

James Chance & the Contortions: Soul Exorcism (Redux)

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 15, 2007

Soul Exorcism (Redux) is just as much a document of a space and time as it is the triumphant reissue of the legendary live album by James Chance & the Contortions. Chance & the Contortions (and his alter-ego-band, James White & the Blacks) were focused on probing the outer reaches of the late 1970's ...