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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 ...
Verneri Pohjola & Black Motor: Rubidium
by Dan McClenaghan
Just going by the name, for those unfamiliar with the thriving Scandinavian jazz scene, a group calling itself Black Motor might be mistaken for a heavy metal rock band--a smash-and-crash set of drums, a blasting three-chord guitar and a wall-shaking bass wrapped around bellowed lyrics. But the real Black Motor, a drums/bass/saxophone outfit--joined on Rubidium by ...
Back From Beyond
By Rich Halley
Label: Pine Eagle Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Spuds; Section Three; Reorbiting--for Sun Ra; Solanum; Opacity; Continental Drift; Broken Ground; The Mountain's Edge; Basalt; Back From Beyond.
Spuds
Album: Back From Beyond
By Rich Halley
Label: Pine Eagle Records
Released: 2012
Duration: 7:52
Rich Halley: Back From Beyond
by Hrayr Attarian
Over a half a century after saxophonist Ornette Coleman launched the free jazz movement the genre is going strong thanks to such individualistic practitioners as tenor saxophonist Rich Halley. Halley's sound has matured and crystallized over the course of dozen or so albums, all critically acclaimed. On his fourteenth release as a leader, ...
Rich Halley: Back From Beyond
by Bruce Lindsay
The arrival of a new album by saxophonist and field biologist Rich Halley reliably signals a few good things: inventive composition and improvisation; tight, powerful, playing; driving grooves; a sense of humor...and squeak toys. Back From Beyond, credited to the Rich Halley 4, keeps up the pattern.Based in Portland, Oregon, Halley's extensive discography dates ...
Rich Halley 4: Back From Beyond
by Dan McClenaghan
Tenor saxophonist Rich Halley can be relied upon to rip it up, either live or in the studio. His forte is free jazz that always seems to threaten to power into some steroidal bebop. He has released a string of fine records on the now-dormant Louie Records--including, perhaps the best of these, the no-holds-barred The Blue ...
Children Of The Blue Supermarket
By Rich Halley
Label: Pine Eagle Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: First Car I See Tonight; Breath Test; Sudden Memory; & Now A Word From Your Atmosphere; Children of the Blue Supermarket; The Cherry Tree At The Top Of The Stairs; Bent; Kleenex and Ziplocs; NATO Report.
Requiem For A Pit Viper
By Rich Halley
Label: Pine Eagle Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Requiem for a Pit Viper; Snippet Stop Warp; View from the Underpass;
Circumambulation; Purple and Gray; Maj; Wake Up Line; Squeaker; Subterranean
Strut; Afternoon in June.
