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Michael Bellar

Strum

By 9 Horses

Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Strum; Americannia; Gasparilla; Rohri; Long Time Away; Jenny-Pop Nettle Eater; Just Don't Call It That; The House That Ate Myself.

9 Horses: Strum

by Neil Duggan
June 26, 2024

There are no prizes for guessing that this album from 9 Horses is called Strum because every track features the sound of a strummed instrument. There are over 20 stringed instruments involved, with mandolins, violins, guitars, banjos, basses and pianos, in various combinations, forming the main components. They are strummed, plucked or otherwise coaxed into life ...

Take Five With Mandolinist Joe Brent

by AAJ Staff
May 22, 2024

Meet Joe Brent Called, “one of the truly exceptional musicians of his generation," a mandolinist about whom it has been said, “there has never been a mandolinist with greater technical skills," and a composer whose music, “touches and communicates the essence of what it means to be an alive, feeling human being," Joe Brent has forged ...

8th Annual Red Hook Jazz Festival Takes Place June 14 & 21 In The Urban Meadow

January 30, 2015

“The Red Hook Jazz Festival exists contentedly on the margins, like its namesake neighborhood and much of the music on its bill... The mood in the audience was neighborly, with a higher ratio of small children to youngish adults than I’ve seen at any musical event not expressly pitched as a kids’ show.” —Nate Chinen, New ...

Turned On Turned Up

By Michael Bellar

Label: Left Three Lanes Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Squashing Pollyanna; Fred Jones Pt.2; All Things Rabbit; Heavyweight Love Match; Sublime; Fur Turban; Three Legged Dog; The Damage Done; Man, You Weren't Even There; Unravel; Misty Mountain Hop; Yoga For Prison Girls.

Michael Bellar As-Is Ensemble: Turned On Turned Up

by Glenn Astarita
November 28, 2009

Fans of Medeski, Martin & Wood and the generally hip might dig the upbeat and refreshing sounds of keyboardist Michael Bellar's As-Is Ensemble. Its band members perform with notable artists when not on tour, amid previous duties as the house band for New York City's famed Blue Note club. And while the trio abides by a ...

Michael Bellar and the AS-IS Ensemble Release "Turned On Turned Up"

August 17, 2009

Touted “Generation Next” by Billboard Magazine during their first ever New York City performance, Michael Bellar and the AS-IS Ensemble seem to defy description as they take the stage. This ber-hip electro-acoustic group blends sounds from jazz, rock and world percussion into their own unique form of alt-jazz. As the former house band for the legendary ...

React!

By Michael Bellar

Label: Creative Sources
Released: 1998