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Jim McAuley: Gongfarmer 18
by Rex Butters
For a musician whose formidable technique and imagination require denials of overdubbing, guitarist Jim McAuley has long maintained a low profile. Thanks to Vinny Golia, that's about to change with Nine Winds' release of Gongfarmer 18, an explosive calling card that vaporizes notions of what an acoustic guitar can do beautifully. McAuley accomplishes his transformations via ...
Jim McAuley: Gongfarmer 18
by John Eyles
My only previous experience of Jim McAuley's guitar playing was via an Acoustic Guitar Trio record on Incus. McAuley was the dominant voice in that trio. He showed himself to be adept at improvising melodic lines, and he frequently instigated lines that the other two members--Nels Cline and Rod Poole--picked up on. This (inexplicably ...
Rick Helzer: Face in the Mirror
by Michael Davis
When the South Bay-based trio Big World broke up in the early '90s, many local jazz fans were disappointed, feeling that, even after two good albums, the band's potential hadn't really been reached. Yet now, in 2005, it would appear that all three musicians are playing some of the best music of their lives. Tenor saxophonist ...
Rick Helzer: Face In The Mirror
by Glenn Astarita
Rick Helzer, composer/pianist/author and Associate Director of Jazz Studies at San Diego State University, displays a complex yet delectably attainable approach to modern jazz. With perennial poll winner James Newton appearing on flute on selected works, the various ensemble alignments provide a discerning glimpse into Helzer's linearly designed and lyrically rich compositional style. Helzer ...
Vinny Golia: A Gift for the Unusual: Music for Contrabass Saxophone
by AAJ Staff
West coast sax maven Vinny Golia brings out a set where he plays the tubax, a new type of contrabass saxophone designed by German inventor Benedict Eppelsheim. A standard contrabass saxophone is a rather unwieldly beast, often difficult to tame. Apparently, the tubax solves many of these shortcomings by being both a full-sounding and controllable instrument. ...
Vinny Golia: Music for Like Instruments: The Flutes
by Rex Butters
The prolific Vinny Golia returns with a highly anticipated flute record. As with the other entries in the Music for Like Instruments series, Golia enlists his unit from the cream of the local scene, then directs them in the astonishing textural and technical realizations of his unique musical vision. His muscular webs of sound avoid flutistic ...
Rick Helzer and Vinny Golia: Fancy Meeting You Here
by Rex Butters
Fancy Meeting You Here matches reed regent and CalArts faculty member Vinny Golia with pianist and UCSD faculty member Rick Helzer for a collection of emotionally rich duets, featuring some heart-wrenching playing by Golia. The intimate clarity of the recordings allows Golia's considerable vocabulary of nuance full exposure. “You Tell 'em Kwai Chung flies out of ...
PEXO: A Soundpainting Symphony
Label: Nine Winds Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Entrance/ Prepare/ Get Ready/ Bob
Barker/ The Crowd/ Two Talk Show Hosts
Making Room For Spaces
By MTKJ Quartet
Label: Nine Winds Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Like That She's Gone; And So It Goes...; Function; Fish Face; Nuts and Gum, Together At Last; Mearsyshmearsy.
Sounds From the Source
By soNu
Label: Nine Winds Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: The Lady of the Dark Sonnets/Mississippi Delta; Rebound; Composition Nr. 287+98a; Players; Sound on Sound for Roscoe Mitchell.
