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phillip greenlief (b. 1959, los angeles) - (shorter bio and index of compositions listed below) "The Bay Area's do-it-yourself ethos has produced a bevy of dazzlingly creative musicians, but few have put the philosophy to work as effectively as Phillip Greenlief". – Andrew Gilbert, San Francisco Chronicle Acclaimed saxophonist and composer Phillip Greenlief is the founder of Evander Music; an independent record label presenting original composition, improvised music and jazz. Since 1986, his recordings and performances have received critical acclaim in Down Beat, All About Jazz, Jazz Times, Cadence, Modern Saxophone, InfraTunes (France), Altrisuoni (Italy), The Wire (London), Colossus (Finland), St
2 + 2 with Shoko Hikage and Kanoko Nishi
By Jon Raskin
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Night Town; 2 + 2; Terrestrial part one: Cardboard, part two: Bottles; Succulents; The Bucket; Matchstick
Army.
2 + 2 with Jen Baker & Liz Allbee
By Jon Raskin
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Tableaux; Geomorphs; Light Bending; Night Town; 2 + 2.
Benjamin Koppel & A Clean Feed Buffet
by Maurice Hogue
This episode focuses on several excellent new releases from Clean Feed Records (Mia Dyberg, Ned Rothenberg, Nataniel Edelman, Mikko Innanen, Grzegorz Tarwid, Simon Nabatov, Phillip Greenlief & Mercury) and presents several pieces from Danish saxophonist Benjamin Koppel's White Buses Passage To Freedom. Koppel's important and stunning album is his interpretation of a World War II event ...
Jon Raskin / Phillip Greenlief: 2 + 2 with Jen Baker & Liz Allbee
by Hrayr Attarian
Innovative saxophonists Jon Raskin and Phillip Greenlief use graphic scores for a series of recordings, each with a similar pair of instruments. These collaborations are called 2 + 2. The first of these is the provocative 2 + 2 with Jen Baker & Liz Allbee. As the title indicates Raskin and Greenlief join two brass players, ...
The Long Table
By Jon Raskin
Label: Temescal
Released: 2021
Track listing: Amuse-bouche; Frisk Baglaens; The Long Table Sound Platter 1; The Long Table Sound Platter
2; The Long Table Sound Platter 3; The Long Table Sound Platter 4; Dashed Hopes and Long
Goodbyes; First Time Shapeshifter
The Lost Trio: Monkwork
by Dave Wayne
In the academic world, it's not unusual for someone to devote their scholarly energies to the study of a single, galvanizing individual and their life's work. Take Abraham Lincoln, for instance: the number of college professors and independent historians who've devoted their lives to thinking, speaking, and writing about Honest Abe is simply astounding. A similar ...
Henry Kaiser & Ray Russell: The Celestial Squid
by Troy Collins
The Celestial Squid is an unprecedented summit meeting between two renowned guitarists: legendary British session ace Ray Russell and idiosyncratic Bay Area experimentalist Henry Kaiser. Although best known as a veteran studio musician, Russell's groundbreaking early records revealed a penchant for unbridled free jazz, culminating in his 1971 masterpiece Rites and Rituals (CBS). Since then, Russell ...
Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet: Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet
by Mark Corroto
While the tagline 'Miles Smiles' is more befitting Miles Davis' second great quintet, it is an apt reference to this recording by the Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet (IAHRQ), who draw not so much from the Columbia recordings by Miles Davis E.S.P> (1965), Sorcerer (1967), or Nefertiti (1968) but from the great electricity of Live-Evil (1971) ...
Ross Hammond: Holding onto the Wave
by Troy Collins
Sacramento-based guitarist Ross Hammond has been steadily gaining attention, courtesy of a tireless performing schedule reinforced and documented by a series of diverse albums issued on his own Prescott Recordings imprint. Hammond's releases have featured a variety of instrumental lineups, ranging from lyrical solo recitals to frenetic collective improvisations. His most recent endeavor is Cathedrals (Prescott ...
