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Vinny Golia: A Gift for the Unusual: Music for Contrabass Saxophone
by AAJ Staff
West coast sax maven Vinny Golia brings out a set where he plays the tubax, a new type of contrabass saxophone designed by German inventor Benedict Eppelsheim. A standard contrabass saxophone is a rather unwieldly beast, often difficult to tame. Apparently, the tubax solves many of these shortcomings by being both a full-sounding and controllable instrument. ...
Vinny Golia: Music for Like Instruments: The Flutes
by Rex Butters
The prolific Vinny Golia returns with a highly anticipated flute record. As with the other entries in the Music for Like Instruments series, Golia enlists his unit from the cream of the local scene, then directs them in the astonishing textural and technical realizations of his unique musical vision. His muscular webs of sound avoid flutistic ...
A Fireside Chat with Vinny Golia
by AAJ Staff
Groucho Marx coined the playful commentary: “Only one man in a 1,000 is a leader of men. The other 999 follow women." Guidance is particularly pressing for improvised music, which of late has seen a marked decline in inspiration. The Los Angeles creative community profits greatly because of men like Wadada Leo Smith, Bobby Bradford, Roberto ...
The Vinny Golia Quintet: One, Three, Two
by John Kelman
Sometimes adversity can engender the most remarkable responses. Woodwind multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia and his quintet had landed in Belgium the morning of September 11th, 2001, having taken off from New York a few hours before the terrible tragedy of the World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks, only then to discover what had happened. When the promoters gave the ...
Music For like Instruments: The Eb Saxophones
By Vinny Golia
Label: Nine Winds Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Would It Bother You?; Scharwznegger; We believe The Use Of Homo Sapiens Is Time Sensitive; For
Maurice Ohana; Mothing From The Sea; Bopus (for Franco Boragoni); Chronos; One Additional
Thing...; Winston Misbehaves With The Smoking Macedonian To Comfort His Loneliness; Trilled To
be Here; Raising The Pillows; Name Someone You Don?t Know; Killer Bees & Bananas; Variations
& Themes In Ab Based On The Barelli Sequences.
A Gift For The Unusual - Music For Contrabass Saxophone
By Vinny Golia
Label: Meniscus
Released: 2004
Vinny Golia: Music For Like Instruments: The Eb Saxophones
by Rex Butters
Iconoclast and master reed wrangler Vinny Golia returns with his latest offering from his 9 Winds catalogue, Music for Like Instruments. This first of two such titled projects planned for this year focuses on the E flat saxophone, better known as the alto. Joined by Jason Mears, Beth Shenck, and Nathan Herrera, Golia creates music for ...
Vinny Golia: Music For like Instruments: The Eb Saxophones
by Mark Corroto
Heading up your own label gives you a certain freedom of expression and the ability to create varying projects. Vinnie Golia's stewardship has been the impetus for well over a hundred recordings on his Nine Winds label. From free duets to large ensemble sessions, Golia has kept the West Coast creative scene well documented. ...
