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Mark Dresser Seven: Sedimental You
by Karl Ackermann
In the early stages of his career, bassist/composer Mark Dresser was working with the likes of Anthony Braxton, Marilyn Crispell, and Gerry Hemingway. His long track record of working in composition and improvisation has made him one of the most respected artists in creative music. On Sedimental You, Dresser surrounds himself with a top tier ensemble ...
Nathan Hubbard / Skeleton Key Orchestra: Furiously Dreaming
by Dave Wayne
Sprawling. Massive. Unapologetically ambitious. All over the musical map. But, somehow, not excessive. Furiously Dreaming is a two-CD set by percussionist / composer / musical visionary Nathan Hubbard and his 50-member (for this recording) Skeleton Key Orchestra. The leader or co-leader of a dozen or so different small ensembles playing everything from modern jazz to contemporary ...
Virtual Tour: A Reduced Carbon Footprint Concert Series [DVD]
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by Vincenzo Roggero
Mark Dresser, Nicole Mitchell, Myra Melford, Michael Dessen Virtual Tour: A Reduced Carbon Footprint Concert Series pfMENTUM * * * * 2016 Un quartetto base localizzato al Music Center Theatre di San Diego composto da Nicole Mitchell al flauto, Michael Dessen = 16481} al trombone, {{m: Myra Melford al ...
RelativE ResonancE: RelativE ResonancE
by Dave Wayne
The music of drummer and composer Devin Gray traverses terrains that will be familiar to those who've investigated artists such as Tyshawn Sorey and Steve Lehman. As complex and highly structured as Gray's music can be, there's a palpable human warmth throughout Relative Resonance which makes the music--in spite of its ultra-busy, highly demanding nature--kind of ...
Resonating Abstractions
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Grid After Grid; Organic and Unnatural Objects; Ignite; The Infinite and the Invitation; While in the Subterrain; Where Does Time Go; To Make Real.
Michael Dessen Trio: Resonating Abstractions
by Robert Bush
Michael Dessen is a slide-trombone virtuoso and computer musician of the highest order, and the music his trio crafts on Resonating Abstractions showcases his work as a composer in compelling fashion. Key to this success are the contributions from singular double-bassist Chris Tordini and the multi-rhythmic drums of Dan Weiss. Together they realize and expand the ...
Steven Lugerner: Jericho and San Francisco
by Daniel Lehner
Eric Dolphy once mused, “When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again." Luckily for fellow multi-reedist Steve Lugerner, that's a piece of wisdom that the Bay Area musician did not take at face value. For his release, For We Have Heard, Lugerner devised a means of ...
Mark Dresser: Nourishments
by Dave Wayne
Well-established as one of the foremost virtuoso contrabassists on the face of the planet, Mark Dresser has turned his attention to a variety of other projects over the past few years. The former member of Anthony Braxton's “classic" quartet with drummer Gerry Hemingway and pianist Marilyn Crispell, Dresser's best known recent work has been with drummer ...
Nourishments
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2013
Track listing:
01. Not Withstanding; 02. Canales Rose; 03. Para Waltz; 04. Nourishments; 05. Aperitivo; 06. Rasa; 07. Telemojo.
Mark Dresser Quintet: Nourishments
by AAJ Italy Staff
C'è il sax alto di Rudresh Mahanthappa a dettar legge nel brano che apre questo nuovo album del sessantunenne (il 26 settembre: auguri) bassista losangelino, per l'occasione alla testa di un quintetto ottimamente coeso entro cui si alternano due diversi batteristi. Ed è, quella di Mahanthappa, una voce iperaffermativa, viscerale, le cui scorribande solistiche (ma anche ...
