Results for "Skerik"

Garage a Trois: Power Patriot

by Chris Kompanek
December 8, 2009

The lines between jazz and rock can become blurred inside of a really good groove. That's exactly what happens on Garage a Trois' Power Patriot. In spite of its hokey title with red state overtones, the ten songs it contains are tightly constructed jams composed largely by Mike Dillon and pianist Marco Benevento, whose own trio ...

Garage A Trois: Power Patriot

by Mark Corroto
November 10, 2009

The music of Garage A Trois is located somewhere on the map between do-it-yourself punk fusion and hip-hop jamband. The current lineup replaces guitarist Charlie Hunter, heard on Outre Mer (Telarc, 2006) and Emphasizer (Tone Cool, 2003), with keyboardist Marco Benevento. The effect is to push the music more towards saxophonist Skerik's prior efforts in the ...

Syncopated Taint Horn Quartet with Pearl Jam at Key Arena

September 24, 2009

Tiny Resistors

By Todd Sickafoose

Label: Cryptogramophone
Released: 2008
Track listing: Future Flora; Invisible Ink, Revealed; Bye Bye Bees; Pianos of the 9th Ward; Everyone is Going; Cloud of Dust; Warm Stone; Paper Trombones; Whistle; Tiny Resistors; Barnacle.

Don't Wanna

March 22, 2008

Album: Husky
By Skerik
Label: Hyena Records
Released: 2006
Duration: 5:05

Left For Dead In Seattle

By Skerik

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2006

Husky

By Skerik

Label: Hyena Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Third Rail; Go To Hell Mr. Bush; Syncopate the Taint; Fry His Ass; Don

Skerik: Concept is All Anyone Cares About

by Paul Olson
October 16, 2006

Seattle-born saxophonist Skerik--née Eric Walton--isn't a jazz musician. Or at least, he wouldn't say he is, because no contemporary instrumentalist is more indifferent to--even contemptuous of--musical boundaries and genres. His early years in Seattle were deeply jazz-informed (his father was a jazz fan), but he was playing in rock groups at the same time he was ...

Skerik: Husky

by Chris M. Slawecki
July 11, 2006

Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet is unusual in several ways. First, there's the leader, a tenor saxophonist who goes only by his surname and who also performs in such genteel ensembles as The Dead Kenny Gs and Crack Sabbath. There's that band name, which Skerik copped from the “syncopated taint phrase first used by the US's first ...

Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet: Husky

by AAJ Staff
July 7, 2006

The select few who actually recognize Skerik's singular name will probably remember the saxophonist's recent wild and wacky adventures with Charlie Hunter, Wayne Horvitz and Bobby Previte with some nostalgia. The combination of skronk, groove and interjection he has laid down with these alternative proto-jazz icons seems to have crystallized over time, almost as much as ...