Results for "Rob Waring"

John Surman: Words Unspoken

by Mike Jurkovic
February 15, 2024

Hypnotic and many of its antonyms--stimulating, arousing, reviving--are old school hyperbole which very often separates the hack from the veteran of critical science. But sometimes those everyday words are exactly what need to be said to tell of music unlike everyday and most others. Words Unspoken is just that. Blowing free and unhindered since ...

Beyond Other Stories

By Grete Skarpeid

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Singing Again; Adam & Eve; Stille Stille Stille; While the Sun Is Sinking; Cats in Crete; Like a Bird; The Queen Inside This Room; Holding; My Favorite Things; Flying High.

Singing Again

January 10, 2021

Album: Beyond Other Stories
By Grete Skarpeid
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 4:28

Wako: Wako

by Mark Sullivan
March 30, 2020

Bands will often self-title their debut album, as a kind of calling card to the world at large. But doing so on a fourth album implies a serious coming of age statement: this is really who we are. That is certainly the case here. Its third album, Urolige sinn (Øra Fonogram, 2018), was a blend of ...

Rob Waring

Rob Waring (1956) grew up in Yonkers and White Plains, New York and lived in Manhattan from 1974 until he moved to Oslo, Norway in 1981. While still in high school, Rob studied with Roland Kohloff, who had just become timpanist of the New York Philharmonic. He then studied percussion at the Juilliard School with Saul Goodman and Elden "Buster" Bailey (1974-79) and received his Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees. During that period, he also took elective courses in composition with Stanley Wolfe. Rob studied jazz vibraphone in 1975 with Dave Samuels. As a freelance musician in New York, Rob worked in symphony orchestras, jazz groups, ensembles for new music, and an experimental ensemble for homemade instruments. He was also a much sought-after accompanist for modern dance.

Wako

By Martin Myhre Olsen

Label: Ora Fonogram
Released: 2019
Track listing: For Those We Love; Wako Amok; Stjerneskipet; Brain Drain; Hele verden er en boble; Le tapis volant; Trakterer du musikk?; Dagdrømmeren; Grown-up Life; Everything Comes To an End; When Staring Into Light, We Think; Skumringsbeltet; Savage Detective.

Invisible Threads

By John Surman

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: At First Sight; Autumn Nocturne; Within the Clouds; Byndweed; On Still Waters; Another Reflection; The Admiral; Pitanga Pitomba; Summer Song; Concentric Circles; Stroke Damerel; Invisible Threads.

Return To Mind

By Eyolf Dale

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Midsomer Gardens; Soaring; The Mayor; Return to Mind; Naurak; Woody; Rhône; Taplow; I Can't Deny; Tranquil Dance.

John Surman: Invisible Threads

by Mario Calvitti
May 17, 2018

Dopo oltre 50 anni di attività professionale, il sassofonista britannico John Surman è ancora in grado di sorprenderci. Lo fa con il suo nuovo lavoro, pubblicato sempre dalla ECM, a 6 anni di distanza dal precedente Saltash Bells. Questo Invisible Threads è nato quasi per caso, da un incontro fortuito del sassofonista con la musica brasiliana ...

John Surman: Invisible Threads

by Samuel Stroup
January 24, 2018

Half a century into his musical career, English reed player John Surman continues to find outlets to explore a wide variety of introspective compositions. Invisible Threads, out on ECM, finds Surman exploring folk and world music, accompanied by pianist Nelson Ayres and mallet percussionist Rob Waring. The album features Surman's woodwind melodies bouncing atop piano and ...