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Mark Helias' Open Loose

Gregg August, Sandy Evans, & Phelan Burgoyne

by Maurice Hogue
November 3, 2021

Catching up this time out on a couple of great releases that I've been a little tardy in playing: bassist Gregg August's important Dialogues On Race Vol. 1 and Aussie saxophone powerhouse Sandy Evans' Postcards From The Anthropocene . The late drummer Paul Motian wrote lots of tunes and English drummer Phelan Burgoyne has collected a ...

Mark Helias' Open Loose: Atomic Clock

by Jerry D'Souza
October 27, 2006

In a career spanning over twenty years, Mark Helias has worked with some interesting musical collaborations and concepts. He has constantly searched for the new and challenging, whether it has been in the company of musicians like Ray Anderson, Pheeroan akLaff, Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway, to name a few--or in his writing, which encompasses chamber ...

Mark Helias' Open Loose: Atomic Clock

by Nic Jones
October 8, 2006

Bassist Mark Helias has a great band here. All three musicians, augmented by the second tenor sax of Ellery Eskelin on one track, are entirely in tune with each other, and this programme is notable for the high number of occasions when they seem to breathe as one. The perhaps deliberately woozy air of “Modern Scag" ...

Verbs of Will

By Mark Helias' Open Loose

Label: Radio Legs
Released: 2003
Track listing: Detonation

Mark Helias' Open Loose: Verbs of Will

by Clifford Allen
October 3, 2003

If modern jazz has truly reached a historical synthesis of the sort that will keep it going indefinitely and show its “guts," then free-bop might just be that most promising vein. It’s not that free-bop is a particularly new animal; the net can be cast to both Ornette and Hamiet Bluiett, but it often shows more ...