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Scott Colley: Music Architect

by R.J. DeLuke
March 26, 2007

Scott Colley can be found adding his big-toned, always appropriate contra bass to a number of settings. He's been a staple on the New York music scene for some time now, with older established musicians like Pat Metheny, Andrew Hill, John Scofield, Joe Lovano, Michael Brecker, Clifford Jordan, Herbie Hancock and many, many more. But also ...

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Scott Colley: Architect of the Silent Moment

Read "Architect of the Silent Moment" reviewed by Stephen Wood

by Stephen Wood
February 22, 2007

Scott Colley's ability to fuse free-form improvisation, complex meters, grooving melodies, rock harmonies and atonality has solidified his position as a New York jazz musician of the new generation. Unfortunately we live in a plagued era in which musical complexity is worth just as much as--if not more than--musical accessibility and the communication of ideas. Architect ...

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Scott Colley: Architect of the Silent Moment

Read "Architect of the Silent Moment" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
February 2, 2007

If an artist is the sum total of his experiences, then Scott Colley's reach is nearly limitless. In twenty years the bassist has appeared on nearly 150 albums, ranging from mainstream work with Jim Hall and Carmen McRae to more left-of-center projects with Andrew Hill and Greg Osby. His own releases have been migrating towards a ...

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Canyon

By Mike Holober

Label: Sons of Sound
Released: 2003
Track listing: Canyon, Ansel's Easel, Heart of the Matter, Same Time, Same Place, Roc and a Soft Place, Spin, In So Many Words, You and the Night and the Music, Stardust

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Conversation with Scott Colley

by Franz A. Matzner
October 5, 2003

Though he doesn't know it, I owe composer/bassist Scott Colley quite a bit. It was hearing Mr. Colley perform at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles several years ago that fully opened my ears to the expressive force of the bass. Certainly, I'd always possessed a certain predilection for the bass, but it wasn't until after ...

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Initial Wisdom

By Scott Colley

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Susser Scorpios Far Rockaway Alpha Trip Trouble In Paradise Barracudas Eccentric Circles Rubber Clock

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A Beautiful Day

By Andrew Hill

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Divine Revelation, Faded Beauty, Bellezza, 5 Mo, New Pinnochio, J Di, A Beautiful Day, 11/8.

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Scott Colley: Initial Wisdom

Read "Initial Wisdom" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
July 1, 2002

At 38, Scott Colley is poised to find new directions in jazz. Hip-hop rhythms and New Orleans shuffles coexist side by side on this quartet album of originals and extras. Graceful melodic lines and seamless phrasing tie the pieces together. Each of the four artists stretches out with a loose framework that links up automatically with ...

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Rez Abbasi: Reziliently Brilliant

by Phil DiPietro
June 1, 2002

At 36, Rez Abbasi is the latest accomplished and proven musician with a few solo releases and a few sideman appearances in his discography to choose the independent jazz route. Born in Pakistan, raised in the USA since the age of three, and having gone east from west internationally as well as domestically, Abbasi is known ...

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Scott Colley: Initial Wisdom

Read "Initial Wisdom" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 1, 2002

Bassist Scott Colley steps into the big leagues with his first release for the adventuresome Palmetto Records label. Colley has been a leader of recording sessions in the past, his The Magic Line (Arabesque 2000) and Subliminal... (Criss Cross 1997) garnered critical press for the thirty-eight year-old musician and he has been part of several important ...