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The Tone Sharks: Intention
by Mark Corroto
Sometimes freely improvised music sounds like a marching band falling down an up escalator, and other times its lack of rhythm can be unquestionably painful. Neither of these two obstacles have ever faced the Oregon band known as the Tone Sharks. They ply their craft with an amazing amount of rhythm-based spontaneous creation. The ...
Rich Halley Trio: Objects
by Dave Nathan
Oregon's Louie Records continues to provide a platform for jazz artists who favor free, improvised jazz rather than trying to work in a structured environment. Rich Halley has been a member of that club for several years, starting with his first album for the Avocet label in 1984. This is his second album for Louie as ...
Klobas, Storrs, Hundemer: In the Room
by Dan McClenaghan
'The Room' is percussionist Dave Storrs'studio/garage, a no-frills recording mecca in, of all places, Corvallis, Oregon; where Storrs' and various musical units get together to create spontaneous sounds for the CDs of Louie Records. And since it's Dave's studio, and there is no middleman corporate guy trying to reign things in, you get the undiluted stuff.
Rich Halley Trio: Objects
by Dan McClenaghan
Way up in Corvallis, Oregon, in percussionist Dave Storrs' studio/garage, it's happening; away from the clamor and hubbub of the big city, far removed from the restrictive, profit-minded corporate thinking, a small jazz label is giving birth to unfettered sounds, undiluted, non-pasteurized free jazz, and then some.Louie Records, Dave Storrs' labor of love
Richard Moore: Now What Now
by Mark Corroto
“File under spoken word,” doesn’t quite describe the terrain we are traversing on Richard Moore’s Now What Now. The singer/songwriter teams up with percussionist Dave Storrs (The Tone Sharks, Boundary Issues, Rob Blakeslee, Rich Halley) and bassist Page Hundemer (The Tone Sharks, Whirled Jazz) for three days of philosophically based improvised music. Richard Moore ...
Rob Blakeslee Quartet: Last Minute Gifts
by Jim Santella
Creative improvised music flows directly from an artist’s personality. It’s entirely spontaneous and always new. In that respect, Rob Blakeslee has been warming up for 30 years. His search has taken him all over the U.S. Since he’s settled in Oregon, the trumpeter has remained active in free jazz circles. From 1988 to 1996, he chaired ...
Rich Halley Trio: Objects
by Jim Santella
Each member of Rich Halley's improvising trio participates equally in this session of free activity. Theirs is an avant-garde adventure intended to evoke some impressionistic value to each piece. While Halley's song titles mean very little at the outset, they allow the listener to attach meaning to the music. Since “Objects" is filled with motion and ...
Richard Moore: Now What Now
by Dan McClenaghan
Dark Ruminations, tintinnabulations, wails and groans, squeaks and moans, washes of menacing background noise--an existential sountrack for a burgeoning century. That's Richard Moore's Now What Now on Louie Records, one of the more adventurous jazz labels around. “It's O.K. to have that big question mark there." So says Moore, on his slow-burning new-millennium rant ...
Rich Halley Trio: Objects
by Dave Nathan
It never ceases to amaze the type of person that ends up as a jazz musician. Rich Halley was educated as a field biologist but instead of being out among the flora, fauna and wild animal kingdom, he has been in the recording studio for more than 15 years creating a portfolio of free, avant-garde and ...
Dave Storrs: Another Thing
by Jim Santella
What makes a percussion album so unique is its array of indefinite pitches and the variety of ways in which they’re used. Dave Storrs uses hand drums, gongs, marimba, tiny bells, hand chimes, tom toms, a snare drum, shakers, and more. Bringing the listener closer to Nature, his song creations leave impressions of wild antelope pitter-patter, ...
