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Jesse Elder: The Winding Shell
by Ian Patterson
What is clear from one listen to The Winding Shell is that pianist Jesse Elder is a composer/arranger of some ambition. Changing time signatures and the harmonizing of alto and tenor are features of the music, as are interesting percussive dynamics and contrasts between softly voiced and more animated passages. Lively charge and pregnant pause coexist ...
Jesse Elder: The Winding Shell
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Pianist Jesse Elder has no time for linear melodies, or logical, arithmetical rhythms. Still, on The Winding Shell, he shows himself to be a rather clever master of song form. In prismatic style, he lights up his tunes with refracted luminous and melodic excursions. He plays these around the musicians who augment his obtuse schematics, and ...
Jesse Elder: The Winding Shell
by Chris Mosey
A small black and white picture on the sleeve shows 29-year-old New York avant-garde pianist/composer Jesse Elder, unsmilingly clasping a hand to his head. His eyes are shut tight, screwed up as if in pain. Below the picture a note explains that The Winding Shell is part of a series dedicaded (sic) to ...
Jesse Elder: The Winding Shell
by Mark Corroto
There is always room for a new songsmith in jazz. Pianist/composer Jesse Elder is a prodigious new voice in modern jazz, and his debut recording displays not only his nonpareil composing talents, but those of a very skilled arranger and performer. The Winding Shell finds him working with kindred spirit drummer Tyshawn Sorey, the much heralded ...
From Out of the Grey Forest
By Jesse Elder
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2006
Track listing: Bridge Under The Water; While On The Plateau; From Out Of The Grey Forest; Sun's Eyes; Jonah; Further Than Any Spell; Red Paint; Blue Refuge; Children In The Bend.
Jesse Elder Quintet: From Out of the Grey Forest
by David A. Orthmann
"Nothing is plumb, level or square. This first line from Alan Dugan's poem Love Song: I and Thou" comes to mind while listening to composer/pianist Jesse Elder's second recording. Unlike Dugan's unnamed protagonist, whose haphazard structure holds up for just one great moment, Elder's irregular audible designs come together as a whole, remain stable, and stand ...
Jesse Elder Quintet
by David A. Orthmann
Jesse Elder Jesse Elder Quintet Self Produced 2005 Jesse Elder is a 21-year-old composer, pianist, and bandleader with a bright future. Throughout a self-produced CD recorded in March of 2005, Elder's musicianship and organizational skills evince maturity and wisdom well beyond his years. The antithesis of a blowing session, the ...