Results for "Sticks And Stones"

Sticks and Stones

ECV: Sticks and Stones

by John Kelman
February 3, 2018

While a somewhat common secondary instrument for primarily electric guitarists including Vic Juris, Pat Metheny and Adam Rogers, there are but a handful of jazz six-stringers alive today who make the nylon-string acoustic guitar their main axe. Despite being known to pick up a warm-toned hollow body electric guitar when the need arises, Ottawa, Canada-based Roddy ...

Sticks and Stones

By Roddy Ellias

Label: Kwimu Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: Folksong; Requiem; Waves; Hymn; Sonnet; Nardis; Sticks and Stones; Nostalgia.

Sticks and Stones

By Dromedary Quartet

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2008
Track listing: Sticks and Stones; L'khana; Archach; Gypsy Train; Song for Sylvia; The Jolly Gobbler; Fadolito; Jumechi; Cassiopeia's Dance; Ravayah; Qolquechakamanta/La Fiesta.

Dromedary Quartet: Sticks and Stones

by Budd Kopman
May 21, 2008

With Sticks and Stones string players Rob McMaken and Andrew Reissiger, the original members of Dromedary the duo, have reconstituted the group that was on their self-published 2006 eponymous album, replacing bassist Neal Fountain and drummer Jeff Riley with Chris Enghauser and Louis Romanos respectively. While the band's personnel might have changed, their music remains enchanting, ...

Sticks and Stones

By London Electric Guitar Orchestra

Label: 2:13
Released: 2006
Track listing: 6

London Electric Guitar Orchestra: Sticks and Stones

by John Eyles
March 21, 2006

This EP has a running time of just under twenty minutes and consists of one extended piece (indexed in three separate tracks). Recorded in 2001, the piece is almost the distilled essence of the London Electric Guitar Orchestra. In this expanded eleven-member version of the group, its guiding principles remain solid; as ever, the music is ...

Shed Grace

By Sticks and Stones

Label: Thrill Jockey
Released: 2004
Track listing: Shed Grace; The Refusal; Wordful; Skippy; Veatrice; So Very Cold; Colonial Mentality; Wonder Twins; Ishfahan; 430.

Sticks and Stones: Shed Grace

by Aaron Rogers
July 3, 2004

When hearing the Chicago-based saxophone-bass-drum trio Sticks and Stones, it helps to remember what their style is steeped in. Sticks and Stones reminds jazz fans that its openly improvised format, sound, and playing is rooted both in Ornette Coleman's famous 1959 engagements at the Five Spot in New York where the iconoclastic saxophonist turned the bebop ...

Sticks and Stones: Shed Grace

by David Adler
May 19, 2004

The leaderless, Chicago-born Sticks and Stones trio issued its self-titled debut in 2002 on the 482 Music label. Shed Grace, the group’s Thrill Jockey follow-up, is another fine set—driven by free invention, filtered through democratic exchange. Together, alto saxophonist Matana Roberts, bassist Josh Abrams and drummer Chad Taylor speak the language of free jazz but contend ...