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Rich Halley Quartet: Requiem For A Pit Viper
by Bruce Lindsay
Requiem For A Pit Viper opens up with a powerful, in-your-face, four-note riff that demands attention. The Rich Halley Quartet keeps demanding--and deserving--this attention throughout this collection of the tenor saxophonist's original compositions, as it delivers a constantly surprising and inventive music that ranges from a scream to a whisper--with a few squeaks thrown in. The ...
Rich Halley: Requiem for a Pit Viper
by Andrew J. Sammut
Rich Halley lists music and nature as his two greatest interests. Judging from Requiem for a Pit Viper, the saxophonist and composer is inspired by the raw power of the natural world, rather than its more peaceful gestures. This album maintains an unrelenting intensity through ten Halley originals that rarely allows a chance to stop and ...
Requiem for a Pit Viper
Album: Requiem For A Pit Viper
By Rich Halley
Label: Pine Eagle Records
Released: 2011
Duration: 7:39
Rich Halley Quartet featuring Bobby Bradford: Live at the Penofin Jazz Festival
by Glenn Astarita
Prominent USA West Coast jazz artists, saxophonist Rich Halley and cornetist Bobby Bradford, disseminate a restless spirit, boosted by memorable compositions and compelling improvisational jaunts on this 2010 set. Bradford is a living legend via his affiliations with Ornette Coleman and long-running partnership with pioneering clarinetist John Carter. As anticipated, this band does not disappoint. Sparked ...
Dan Raphael / Rich Halley / Carson Halley: Children Of The Blue Supermarket
by Bruce Lindsay
There have been times when jazz and the spoken word appeared inseparable. Brief times, but times when the combination was a powerful artistic and (counter) cultural force. Children Of The Blue Supermarket brings those times back, a reminder of how effective a partnership the jazz musician and the poet can create. Maybe it's the new thing. ...
Rich Halley: Live at the Penofin Jazz Festival
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un sassofonista che vive a Portland, nell'Oregon. Un cornettista eternamente in ombra nato a Cleveland, nel Mississippi, ma da quasi mezzo secolo attivo a Los Angeles e dintorni. Un festival fuori mano come il Penofin Jazz, che da diciassette anni si svolge a Potter Valley, centoventi miglia a nord di San Francisco. Ecco un disco che ...
Live At The Penofin Jazz Festival
By Rich Halley
Label: Pine Eagle Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: The Blue Rims; Streets Below; Grey Stones / Shards of Sky; The River's Edge is Ice.
Rich Halley: Live at the Penofin Jazz Festival
by Gordon Marshall
Tenor saxophonist Rich Halley gives the great cornetist, Bobby Bradford, the first solo on Live at the Penofin Jazz Festival, as well he should. Bradford is a veteran of the melodically oriented free jazz scene, going back to his days in the late '50s with Ornette Coleman, who is Halley's starting point. When Halley himself comes ...
Rich Halley Quartet featuring Bobby Bradford: Live At The Penofin Jazz Festival
by Bruce Lindsay
As the title suggests, Live At The Penofin Jazz Festival is a straight-from-the-stage recording, from the 2008 Festival held at Potter Valley, California. It chronicles a fiery, upbeat performance, from the Rich Halley Quartet, that combines composed and improvised music in an interesting and enjoyable set of tunes. Four of the compositions can be found on ...
Mountains And Plains
By Rich Halley
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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