Home » Search Center » Results: Neil Welch
Results for "Neil Welch"
Bad Luck: Bloodroot
by Dave Wayne
Available as a download only, Bad Luck's Bloodroot is a fine example of the extremely powerful and virtuosic, cutting-edge music coming out of Seattle these days. Sure, drummer Chris Icasiano and saxophonist Neil Welch make an unholy racket for much of the track's generous twenty-plus minutes duration, yet a determined sense of focus is quite palpable: ...
Neil Welch: Sleeper
by Glenn Astarita
Sleeper is a quality product from noted Seattle new music and jazz saxophonist Neil Welch, who composed the lone 28-minute title track based on an incident that occurred during the US presence in Iraq. Sans rhythm section, Welch paints a vivid storyline, interspersing microtonal extended notes with deft subtleties and touches upon contemporary classical frameworks. Since ...
Bad Luck: Two
by Jerry D'Souza
When Bad Luck comes in the shape of drummer Christopher Icasiano and saxophonist Neil Welch, it can be a pretty good thing. They met at the University of Washington and, driven by an interest in improvised music, began a musical partnership. Both are fearless navigators of the unknown and communicate with an intuitive sense of empathy. ...
Rich Pellegrin Quintet: Three-Part Odyssey
by Dan McClenaghan
What a strange, compelling, often circuitous trip Three-Part Odyssey is. Pianist/composer/bandleader Rich Pellegrin has collected a youthful quintet of Seattle's boldest and most energetic musicians for his debut CD--73 minutes of audacious grooves inside a set of freewheeling compositions that showcase each band member's individual virtuosic prowess without abandoning the collective mood.Along with the ...
Saxophone and drum duets: Cyrillic; Through The Fire; Bad Luck
by John Sharpe
Dave Rempis/Frank Rosaly Cyrillic 482 Music 2009 Famoudou Don Moye/Eliel Sherman Storey Through The Fire AECO Records 2008 Chris Icasiano/Neil Welch Bad Luck Belle Records 2009 ...
