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You're Too Dimensional
Label: pfMentum
Released: 2013
Track listing: Various Manifestations of Thwart & Opine for Curved Bill Thrasher &
Toy Piano in 4 Parts; No Candy for the Wagon Full of Devils; The
Curious Intensity of a Refrigerator Defrosting; Wishing for 2 at 5/3;
mOOn jOOiia; Blue Peepers; The Static Equilibrium of the Values of
Savagery; I Liberate Monsters; Balance Out of Life Out of Balance;
Fools Drunks & Angels.
Michael Vlatkovich Quartet: You're Too Dimensional
by Glenn Astarita
Longtime and prominent affiliate of California's progressive jazz sector, trombonist Michael Vlatkovich has nurtured strong relationships with multi-reedman Vinny Golia, tenor saxophonist Rich Halley and others of note. Yet Vlatkovich has long been considered as one of the finest improvising trombonist's within modern jazz and the avant-garde jazz spectrums. He's comfortable in a variety of settings, ...
Rich Halley: Crossing The Passes
by Dave Wayne
In the popular media, jazz is seen as a completely urban phenomenon. There's plenty of precedent for this. It's not worth going into here. But the mere mention of the word “jazz" evokes images of neon- illuminated city streets, ice cubes tinkling in rock glasses, lit cigarettes, and bustling nightlife. For some, though, jazz is not ...
Art Strike!
by Mark Corroto
"Would you support an art strike?" That's the question I've been asking musicians for the past few months. “Will you agree to stop writing and performing music for one year?" In 1990 the London artists Stewart Home and Mark Pawson proposed that all artists cease to “make, exhibit, distribute, sell, or discuss their work" for three ...
Rich Halley 4: Crossing the Passes
by Hrayr Attarian
Saxophonist Rich Halley has always had a thick, brassy tone and a bold and daring improvisational approach. Over the years a certain contemplative wisdom has permeated his music enhancing its intellectual edge without tempering its fiery zeal. The result, as demonstrated on Crossing The Passes is a sublime balance of the cerebral and visceral.On ...
Rich Halley 4: Crossing the Passes
by Dan McClenaghan
Tenor saxophonist Rich Halley kicked his recording career into high gear in 2001 with the flammable Coyotes in the City (Louie Records, 2001), a chunk of free jazz ferocious enough to scare off the feeble and the weak of heart. In a succession of CDs since then--a total of four at Louie Records before switching to ...
Pershing Woman
Label: pfMentum
Released: 2012
Track listing: Our Costumes Should Tell us Who we are and What we Think; Pursued by More Past Than Future; Black Triangles Yellow Corn and Pink Medicine Drops; With Whom Each Dance; Once in a Blue Moon a Decent Wolf Comes Along/Hostages of Romance (Medley ); The Imponderable Hiding in Extra Large Clothing; Pershing Woman; Neighborhood Beasts Let Down Their Hair; I Let my Magic Tortoise Go.
Vlatkovich Tryyo: Pershing Woman
by Glenn Astarita
Southern California-based trombonist Michael Vlatkovich leads a power-packed trio, captured live at a Michigan venue. The trombonist is firmly entrenched in the region's avant-garde and progressive jazz loop, alongside cohorts such as multi-reedman Vinny Golia, pfMentum Records proprietor and trumpeter Jeff Kaiser and other notables. Here, the trio generates a lot of positive hoopla and excitement ...
Rich Halley 4: Back From Beyond
by Dave Wayne
It's perplexing that a jazz saxophonist of Rich Halley's caliber has never recorded for a large jazz label such as ECM or Soul Note/Black Saint. Perhaps a victim of geography (he's chosen to live in rural Oregon almost his entire life) and circumstance (he maintained a career as a wildlife biologist) more than anything else, the ...
