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Mountains and Plains

Label: Louie Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Problematic; Long Valley; The Rub; Before Dawn; Three Way Shapes; Mountains and Plains; Intermountain Rhumba; Distant Peaks; Winter Sky.

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Rich Halley Trio: Mountains And Plains

Read "Mountains And Plains" reviewed by John Kelman


Over the years, Oregon-based saxophonist Rich Halley has travelled in the same musical circles as intrepid woodwind multi-instrumentalist and Left Coast guru Vinny Golia. And while he's even released a couple of albums on Golia's Nine Winds label with Golia in tow as performer and/or producer, Halley's recent recorded output on Louie Records has focused exclusively ...

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Rich Halley Trio: Mountains and Plains

Read "Mountains and Plains" reviewed by Jim Santella


With their creative ideas flowing naturally, these three musicians open the windows and doors to cast relaxed impressions. The intensity tucked inside their performance ensures, however, that no part of their program becomes too relaxed. A vibrant quality pervades the session, giving life blood throughout. Saxophonist Rich Halley communicates with a whispered tone that ...

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Objects

Label: Louie Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Objects; The Search; Grey Stones; Back in the 400 Club; Over the Rainbow; Thickets/Pavement

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Rich Halley Trio: Objects

Read "Objects" reviewed by Dave Nathan


Oregon's Louie Records continues to provide a platform for jazz artists who favor free, improvised jazz rather than trying to work in a structured environment. Rich Halley has been a member of that club for several years, starting with his first album for the Avocet label in 1984. This is his second album for Louie as ...

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Rich Halley Trio: Objects

Read "Objects" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Way up in Corvallis, Oregon, in percussionist Dave Storrs' studio/garage, it's happening; away from the clamor and hubbub of the big city, far removed from the restrictive, profit-minded corporate thinking, a small jazz label is giving birth to unfettered sounds, undiluted, non-pasteurized free jazz, and then some.Louie Records, Dave Storrs' labor of love

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Rich Halley Trio: Objects

Read "Objects" reviewed by Jim Santella


Each member of Rich Halley's improvising trio participates equally in this session of free activity. Theirs is an avant-garde adventure intended to evoke some impressionistic value to each piece. While Halley's song titles mean very little at the outset, they allow the listener to attach meaning to the music. Since “Objects" is filled with motion and ...

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Rich Halley Trio: Objects

Read "Objects" reviewed by Dave Nathan


It never ceases to amaze the type of person that ends up as a jazz musician. Rich Halley was educated as a field biologist but instead of being out among the flora, fauna and wild animal kingdom, he has been in the recording studio for more than 15 years creating a portfolio of free, avant-garde and ...


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