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Rich Halley 5: The Outlier

Read "The Outlier" reviewed by Budd Kopman


The Outlier feels like the third part of a triptych which started with Creating Structure, followed by Eleven. The former recording demonstrated how structure can be created during improvisation, while the latter how more- or-less composed music with structure can be the foundational basis for improvisation. The record at hand mixes the two concepts ...

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Rich Halley 5: The Outlier

Read "The Outlier" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Veteran Oregon saxophonist Rich Halley has assembled here a CD that combines the volcanic force of the 60's avant-garde with a modern fealty to rhythm. On these ten tracks Halley and fellow Pacific Coast veterans, saxophonist Vinny Golia and trombonist Michael Vlatkovich storm and rumble wildly while bassist Clyde Reed and drummer Carson Halley ...

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Rich Halley 5: The Outlier

Read "The Outlier" reviewed by Mark Corroto


After a string of impressive quartet recordings, saxophonist Rich Halley adds multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia to the lineup for The Outlier. The band is the Rich Halley 5, not the Rich Halley 4 + 1. There is an important distinction here. This session gives the impression of a functioning quintet, not just a guest appearance.

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Rich Halley 4: Eleven

Read "Eleven" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Ci troviamo oggi a occuparci del terzo album del quartetto di Rich Halley, uno all'anno, per cui, dopo Crossing the Passes e The Wisdom of Rocks, usciti rispettivamente nel 2013 e nel 2014, ecco questo Eleven (tanti sono i brani che lo compongono), edito a fine 2015 (e quindi preceduto, in ciò, da Creating Structure) seppure ...

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Rich Halley 4: Eleven

Read "Eleven" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Following up on his wonderful previous release, Creating Structure, the Rich Halley quartet (Halley on tenor, trombonist Michael Vlatkovich, bassist Clyde Reed and drummer Carson Halley) strikes again with Eleven, tearing through eleven Halley compositions. The organizing factor of the previous album was how structure can arise and be perceived in music that is ...

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Creating Structure

Label: Pine Eagle Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Analog Counterpoint; Rain Percolates Laterite; Riding the Trade Winds; Angular Momentum; The Shadow of Evening; Metal Buzz; Street Rumors; View Through the Eclipse; Echoes of the South Side; The Tumbled Lands; Small Perturbations; Working the Interstices; Quiet Like Stone; Pushing Breath; The Shove; The Response.

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Rich Halley 4: Eleven

Read "Eleven" reviewed by Dave Wayne


Rich Halley and Michael Vlatkovich have been on a real hot streak as of late. Halley, who also runs the Pine Eagle record label, continues to maintain a number a groups. Besides the quartet featured on Eleven, he has a new quartet with the excellent LA-based trumpeter Dan Clucas, and continues to work with the legendary ...

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Rich Halley 4: Eleven

Read "Eleven" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Saxophonist Rich Halley exploded out of a five year recording hiatus in 2010 with Live at Penofin Jazz Festival, a growling, high energy, in-front-of-the-crowd mad man rant that featured trumpeter Bobby Bradford in the front line of a wild and often raucous chordless quartet. Five years off or not, there was a history there--a bunch of ...

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Rich Halley 4: Eleven

Read "Eleven" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Saxophonist Rich Halley again leads his empathetic quartet through eleven new compositions on this thoroughly engaging session. It's the sixth album by the group (Halley on tenor saxophone, trombonist Michael Vlatkovich, bassist Clyde Reed and drummer Carson Halley) and they display a remarkable chemistry throughout. Halley provides very distinctive compositions as starting points--he gives a brief ...

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Rich Halley 4: Creating Structure

Read "Creating Structure" reviewed by Budd Kopman


While hiding in the great Northwest (specifically Portland, Oregon), saxophonist Rich Halley has built an impressive body of work of composition and performance in many different settings. Creating Structure is the latest from his quartet, the Rich Halley 4 whose previously releases are The Wisdom Of Rocks, Crossing The Passes, Back From Beyond and Requiem for ...


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