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Throttle Elevator Music

Throttle Elevator Music: Final Floor

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 30, 2021

Final Floor marks the last stop of a band that one might say never really was. Throttle Elevator Music was the name given to a jazz-punk studio cooperative project organized and operating from 2011 through 2017 around saxophonist Kamasi Washington, drummer Mike Hughes (aka “Lumpy") and composer and guitarist Gregory Howe. Howe also founded ...

Lost Within Jobim, the BOOM, and You

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 6, 2021

Albare Plays Jobim Vol. 2 Alfi Records 2021 “I was 14 when I first heard the music of Tom Jobim," recalls Albare, nom de guerre of guitarist Albert Dadon. “I already had six years of guitar learning under my belt. When I first heard those bossa ...

West Coast Get Down: Kamasi Washington, Cameron Graves, Throttle Elevator Music

by Russell Perry
October 27, 2020

In the past several years, a suite of players have emerged from Los Angeles, many of whom grew up together, loosely connected by the name West Coast Get Down. The most visible player in this scene is Kamasi Washington from a jazz perspective, but Stephen “Thundercat" Bruner and Miles Mosley have made significant records in a ...

Petra Haden, Bill Frisell, Jimmy Heath, Jorge Roeder & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 8, 2020

As we continue our exploration of the best in new and upcoming jazz, this week we look into a unique project featuring the music of John Zorn and lyrics of Jesse Harris written with the unique voice of Petra Haden in mind, a special album that blends beautifully with the new releases by Bill Frisell, Jorge ...

Throttle Elevator Music: Emergency Exit

by Karl Ackermann
July 1, 2020

The sub-genre of “punk jazz" has existed—on paper— since the 1970s when Patti Smith proposed a collaboration with Ornette Coleman. That partnership did not materialize. When all the moving pieces are pulled together there is little substance to suggest that the category ever shared specific practices or conventions. Then, in 2012, Throttle Elevator Music emerged with ...

Throttle Elevator Music: Retrospective

by Luca Muchetti
November 5, 2018

Una delle figure più dirompenti (e popolari) del jazz del nostro tempo, Kamasi Washington, ed Erik Jekabson, Thomas McCree, Ava Mendoza, Gregory Howe e Matt Montgomery sono i protagonisti di Retrospective, album che--sebbene uscito nel 2017--poggia le sue radici a cavallo del tempo di due sessioni: la prima tenutasi nel 2011, la seconda nel 2016, entrambe ...

Retrospective

By Throttle Elevator Music

Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Liminality; Playing the Alleyway; February Drift; Flux and Soldier; Retrorespective; Second Liminality; Subtract Limited; Rapid Rotation; February 15th.

Retrorespective

By Throttle Elevator Music

Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Liminality; Playing the Alleyway; February Drift; Flux and Soldier; Retrorespective; Second Liminality; Subtract Limited; Rapid Rotation; February 15th.

Throttle Elevator Music: Retrorespective

by Phillip Woolever
June 15, 2017

Besides being a well-played selection of powerful music, this is an exciting, top-tier timepiece offering insight on the development of star saxophonist and composer Kamasi Washington a few years before he exploded onto the musical landscape. This release is not actually the most recently recorded work by the project's initial group, who played together ...