Results for "Kevin Shea"

Moers Festival Interviews: Matt Mottel & Kevin Shea

by Martin Longley
May 18, 2021

Improviser In Residence becomes Improvisers In Residence, for the 50th anniversary of the Moers Festival in Germany. Running since 2008, this has been a year-long in-house situation for invited artists, and usually offered to a single being. In 2021, we have the innovation of a twosome, in Matt Mottel (keyboards) and Kevin Shea (drums), who also ...

Stephen Gauci / Adam Lane / Kevin Shea: Bulletins From The Frontline

by John Sharpe
February 1, 2021

Until the pandemic hit, tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci's trio, with bassist Adam Lane and drummer Kevin Shea, formed the keystone of the Bushwick Improvisers Series organized by the hornman. The band had played every week since the summer of 2017, give or take the occasional substitution, either as a threesome or with the addition of guitarist ...

Stephen Gauci Pandemic Duets

by John Sharpe
January 4, 2021

When everything shut down in March 2020 due to the Covid pandemic, New York City native tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci initiated what he thought would be a set of five duet recordings in a refusal to be cowed by the lack of performance opportunities. In fact the collection has run to some 19 entries over that ...

Live At The Bushwick Series!

Label: Gaucimusic
Released: 2020
Track listing: Improvisation 1; Improvisation 2.

this week is in two weeks

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2020

Vijay Anderson, Francois Houle & Susan Alcorn

by Maurice Hogue
December 2, 2020

One could almost make the case that this episode is a reverse sandwich, with the filling on the outside, considering the first tracks from a sizzling hot Vijay Anderson Trio and the windup tune from pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn and her fine band of Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek, Mark Feldman and Ryan Sawyer. You could ...

Celebrating Gauci Music

by Bob Osborne
November 26, 2020

This week a selection of new albums including material from Stephen Gauci's gaucimusic imprint, a first look at a new electric album celebrating the music of John Coltrane, new music from Rebecca Hennessey, and two great new releases from the ears&eyes label. Playlist Hans Tammen, Jeremy Carlstedt, Stephen Gauci “#1" from Studio Sessions Vol. 11 (gaucimusic) ...

Chris Pitsiokos / Javier Areal Velez / Kevin Murray: First Blush

by Mark Corroto
October 7, 2020

Was this gig at New York's Downtown Music Gallery in January, 2020, a one-off performance? Saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos was scheduled to perform solo, probably to promote his extraordinary solo release Speak In Tongues (Relative Pitch, 2019), but chose instead to expand to a trio. And a new trio at that. This wasn't one of his recent ...

Stephen Gauci / Eli Wallace / Kevin Shea: Live At The Bushwick Series!

by John Sharpe
September 4, 2020

Tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci presents another bulletin from the front line of the Brooklyn underground on Live At The Bushwick Series! Literally so when considering the windowless basement room in the Bushwick Public House where this performance was recorded in November 2019. Alongside Gauci sits the regular drummer from his trio/quartet Kevin Shea, best known for ...

Mendoza / Anderson / Gauci: Studio Sessions Vol. 4

by John Sharpe
March 22, 2020

If you want to avoid compromise, then starting your own label appears a sound strategy. That's the road traveled by NYC-native saxophonist Stephen Gauci with his eponymous imprint. Since its inception in 2019, releases have been split between live recordings from the Bushwick Improvisers Series which Gauci runs and studio sessions, all of which so far ...