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Beekman: Beekman Vol. 02

Read "Beekman Vol. 02" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
November 23, 2016

Beekman is a collective quartet with members from all over the world: pianist Yago Vazquez from Spain, saxophonist Kyle Nasser from the U.S., bassist Pablo Menares from Chile and drummer Rodrigo Recabarren also from Chile. Nasser's work was heard on the intriguing Restive Soul, while Vazquez made a very strong contribution on Stream with veterans Scott ...

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Beekman: Vol. 02

by Dave Wayne
November 21, 2016

Beekman is a super-tight collective quartet whose members hail from three (count 'em) different continents. Pianist Yago Vazquez is from Spain, reedman Kyle Nasser is an American, and the entire rhythm section--bassist Pablo Menares and drummer Rodrigo Recabarren--hails from Chile. Their prosaically-titled sophomore album, Vol. 02, is more-or-less in the same brainy-but-chill modern jazz style as ...

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Restive Soul

By Kyle Nasser

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: For Rick B; Angelique; Restive Soul; Shadow Army; Gyorgi Goose; Radiator Lady; Trip to Lester's; Whitestone; Ecstatic Repose; Rise.

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Kyle Nasser: Restive Soul

Read "Restive Soul" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
April 30, 2015

Saxophonist Kyle Nasser's background story is very interesting. Very involved in jazz from grade school through college at Harvard, he nevertheless was enrolled as an economics and political philosophy major. That is, until he heard Hank Jones give a master class and play a gig, which (making the story a bit compressed) completely changed his life's ...

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Kyle Nasser: Restive Soul

Read "Restive Soul" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
April 26, 2015

Boston native saxophonist Kyle Nasser's debut Restive Soul is a cohesive collection of ten, intriguing and elegantly crafted, Nasser originals. The music has a surprising maturity tempered with passionate spontaneity and a darkly cinematic ambience. A mysterious aura shrouds the evocative “Shadow Army" that opens with pianist Dov Manski's percussive chords. Guitarist Jeff Miles' ...