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Richard Nelson

Richard Nelson is a composer and guitarist who is equally at home in both the jazz and contemporary concert music traditions. An active composer in both idioms as well as a professional jazz guitarist, Richard divides his time between the in-the-moment spontaneity of improvisational explorations and the more deliberately organized realms of composition. But rather than keeping these modalities separate, he fosters a healthy creative interplay between them. The Richard Nelson Imaginary Ensemble is his vehicle for concerts under his own leadership. Flexible in instrumentation, wide-ranging in genre, the group defies categorization with programs that range from fully-composed pieces and progressive jazz (and improvised music of all sorts) to straight-ahead jazz and music across the rock/pop/folk/blues spectrum

Jazz Meets Folk, Folk Meets Jazz

by Jerome Wilson
April 1, 2022

This show looks at some of the many cross-pollinations between jazz and folk music. There are jazz musicians like Dave Brubeck and Dave Douglas dabbling in folk forms and folk musicians like Pentangle and Dave Van Ronk exercising their jazz chops. There are also pieces based on folk musics outside of the usual Anglo-American axis.

Faces Of Souls

By Mark Harvey

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Meldtown; Sisyphus; Consecration; Greta; Of The People; Lament for the City; Faces of Souls.

Faces of Souls, The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra

By Mark Harvey

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1. Meltdown 2. Sisyphus 3. Consecreation 4. Greta 5. Of the People 6. Lament for the City 7. Faces of Souls

Democratic Vistas

By Mark Harvey

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: 1. Franklin's Wager 2. Dreaming 3. Samba313 4. De-Evolution Blues 5 through 14 The Swamp-a-Rama Suite 15. No Walls (Prelude) 16. No Walls (Finale)

Nuove esplorazioni dell'Aardvark Jazz Orchestra

by Angelo Leonardi
May 4, 2016

I due ultimi album dell'Aardvark Jazz Orchestra confermano il versatile e poliedrico approccio del suo fondatore e leader, Mark Harvey. In una carriera di oltre quattro decenni la formazione bostoniana ha mostrato di operare con competenza e creatività in tutto l'arco dell'orchestrazione jazz: da rivisitazioni ellingtoniane a esplorazioni post-free, in sintesi tra momenti cameristici e libere ...

Richard Nelson / Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Deep River

by Budd Kopman
October 14, 2015

The inspiration for jazz composition and improvisation can come from almost anywhere. For guitarist/composer Richard Nelson it was American roots music that he played with his then 12-year-old son who had developed an intense connection to the old tunes and players. The jazz suite Deep River is the result of experiencing this music with ...

Richard Nelson / Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Deep River

by Jack Bowers
September 25, 2015

If the name of this new CD by guitarist Richard Nelson and Boston's intrepid Aardvark Jazz Orchestra sounds familiar, that's because it is the same as a spiritual of unknown origin that has been sung for perhaps hundreds of years in churches and other venues and recorded a number of times in films, once by the ...

Wake Up Jacob

August 31, 2015

Album: Deep River
By Richard Nelson
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 07:24

Pursuit

By Richard Nelson

Label: Heliotrope
Released: 2011