Results for "Rick Helzer"

Rick Helzer

First Flight Home

By Paul Yonemura

Label: Girod Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Happy Feet; Somewhere Above The Clouds; A Very Special Day; First Flight Home; Seeking the Kingdom; Spirit of LIght; One For Jack; Intuitions; Monterey Peninsula.

Paul Yonemura: First Flight Home

by Jack Bowers
September 22, 2026

For a recording that almost did not happen, drummer Paul Yonemura's First Flight Home is a welcome intruder and an undeniable pleasure to hear. As Yonemura tells it, four of his compositions were recorded on a demo tape in 1984, which is as far as they were intended to go. After listening to them, ...

Take Five With Joseph David Howell

by AAJ Staff
June 15, 2013

Meet Joseph David Howell: Dr. Joseph D. Howell has gone from being a mostly self-taught musician from a poor small-town family to earning a Doctor of Musical Arts from a prestigious conservatory. Today he professionally performs, composes, and teaches music of many styles and instruments while maintaining an artistic focus on jazz clarinet and ...

Triptych Mirror

By Rick Helzer

Label: Circumvention Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: 1. Ballad of the Credit Card Millionaire - 05:54; 2. It's What You Do (J. Grinnell) - 06:44; 3. Still Time, Quiet Time - 05:42; 4. Sundials I (N. Hubbard) - 10:29; 5. Faith Tested - 09:32; 6. Triptych Mirror (Helzer/Grinnell/Hubbard) - 10:18; 7. Path of the Holy Spirit - 04:51; 8. Manich! Manich!! Manich!!! - 04:13; 9. Last Chance to Say Goodbye (N. Hubbard) - 05:25. Le composizioni sono di Rick Helzer, salvo dove indicato.

ARC Trio: Triptych Mirror

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 8, 2007

Questo CD dell'etichetta californiana Circumvention Music propone una musica interessante, che, senza aggiungere molto all'attualità del jazz, si rivela aggiornata, elegante, concepita con idee puntigliose, esaltate da un concentrato interplay. I temi, mai banali, il più delle volte sono disegnati con decisione: emblematici in tal senso “Ballad of the Credit Card Millionaire" e “Manic! Manic!! Manic!!!", ...

Fancy Meeting You Here

By Rick Helzer

Label: Nine Winds Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: You Tell

Face In The Mirror

By Rick Helzer

Label: Nine Winds Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Fire Storms; The Mentor (To James Newton); Tell Your Story (To Meade Lux Lewis); Nobody's Song But Kenny's (To Kenny Wheeler); Bell Chimes In (To Lori Bell); Two Witnesses; By His Wounds We Are Healed; He Who Is Acquainted With Sorrow; Sounds Like; Mingus Meditations; Gethsemane.

Rick Helzer: Face in the Mirror

by Michael Davis
September 11, 2005

When the South Bay-based trio Big World broke up in the early '90s, many local jazz fans were disappointed, feeling that, even after two good albums, the band's potential hadn't really been reached. Yet now, in 2005, it would appear that all three musicians are playing some of the best music of their lives. Tenor saxophonist ...

Rick Helzer: Face In The Mirror

by Glenn Astarita
August 11, 2005

Rick Helzer, composer/pianist/author and Associate Director of Jazz Studies at San Diego State University, displays a complex yet delectably attainable approach to modern jazz. With perennial poll winner James Newton appearing on flute on selected works, the various ensemble alignments provide a discerning glimpse into Helzer's linearly designed and lyrically rich compositional style. Helzer ...