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Tom Christensen: New York School
by AAJ Staff
Modern jazz sometimes seems a bit schizophrenic, caught between the extremes of intellectual abstraction and spiritual seeking, and the more ambitious sort often fails because it can't find intuitive connections between the two. Horn multi-instrumentalist Tom Christensen's third release in six years is a pleasure from start to finish because it manages to simultaneously embrace thought ...
Tom Christensen: New York School
by Jerry D'Souza
Art begets art. Tom Christensen composed the music for this record based on the work of a group of poets and painters from the fifties and sixties known as the New York School. Frank O'Hara wrote some of his poems inspired by the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, and Grace Hartigan. In turn, some of ...
Tom Christensen: New York School
by John Kelman
While woodwind multi-instrumentalist Tom Christensen has been making his presence known on the New York scene over the past decade, recording with artists including Joe Lovano, David Sanchez, and Toshiko Akiyoshi, he's been slowly, almost insidiously, emerging as a composer of remarkable depth and invention. His latest release, New York School, is one of those very ...
Paths
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Just To Play; Dude; Footnote; Negative Clank; Nostalgia; Iquique;
Propelled By Portals; You?re My Everything; Longing Hoping Longing;
Critical Can Opener; Nardis; Sam Was Born.
Tom Christensen: Paths
by Mark Corroto
Like his previous release Gualala (Naxos 2000) where he plays a jazz oboe, multi-reedist Tom Christensen adds the French horn to his piano-less quartet on Paths. But this band's second outing with wood flutes, bass flutes, clarinets and hand drumming is not about eccentricity. Christensen and company are all about making beautifully accessible yet ...
Gualala
Label: Naxos Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Gualala; The Cats of Ulthar; Cellular Coyotes; Thank You; Tangoed Web; Waiting is; New
Pedal Tune; Bare Trees; Or Not. (Total Time: 65:34)
Tom Christensen: Gualala
by Steve Armour
Despite the almost thirty-five year absence of a dominant figure, jazz is still evolving. While the big institutions of jazz sniff along after retro trends and media darlings, small labels, small clubs and individually minded musicians are developing the music separate from any clear mainstream. The results of this Balkanization of jazz have been uneven, but ...
Tom Christensen: Gualala
by C. Michael Bailey
Two Tenors, Sopranos, and Clarinets. This disc is almost entirely a modal improvisation. Each piece, saving one or two, is built on a single scale, propelled by a single bass figure. It reminds me of a highbrow John Lee Hooker. Boom, Boom, Boom Boom. Tom Christensen, the erstwhile leader of this merry band is a multi-reedist ...
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