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Article: Film Review

The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble: 20th Anniversary Concert

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The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble 20th Anniversary Concert Nine Winds 2005 Vinny Golia continues to make history in Los Angeles with the release of this DVD, the first on his Nine Winds label. Shot on three cameras with excellent sound recording, the program features a good look at 36 of ...

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One, Three, Two

Label: Jazz Halo
Released: 2005
Track listing: Disc One: Hexo-Lateral (for Buckminister Fuller); None That Are Giants; While All Are Away; On Behalf of My Benefactors; Prelude to The Orphans
Disc Two: Drum in the Circle of Stone; Waiting, Waiting, Waiting; Make It Snappy; Yari; Bridge Made of Waters; The Happy

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Music for Like Instruments: The Flutes

Label: Nine Winds Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Lonely Michael; An Alternative to Oregnum; On a Train; Dr. Lubbeck Pays a Visit, So Sam Phones Some Friends; Poece; Wasabi-One; Six-Ninety; Aquarina; the Machinery of History; The Everyday Phone Call (for Bobby Bradford); Wasabi-Two; Red Dirt; Wasabi-Three; Da A; Xenomorph

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A Gift for the Unusual: Music for Contrabass Saxophone

Label: Nine Winds Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Single Booth Enclosure: Prime; Repetition; Mr. Amons Builds His Bridge; Eye My; Single Booth Enclosure Third: Revisitation; The Mozart Of Vice; The 15th; Just Something I Thought Of; Once Upon A Time On My Way To The Studio; A History Of Everything That Ever Happened; The Last Of Its Kind.

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Vinny Golia: One, Three, Two / A Gift for the Unusual / Music For Like Instruments; The Flutes

Read "Vinny Golia: One, Three, Two / A Gift for the Unusual / Music For Like Instruments; The Flutes" reviewed by Brandt Reiter


Several years ago, the esteemed jazz critic Gary Giddins named Sonny Rollins' This Is What I Do his #1 album of the year. Among its many other merits, Giddins celebrated what he referred to as the record's “LP-ballpark length. “You can actually take it in in one sitting, Giddins wrote, adding, “How many 75-minute epics, excellent ...

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Article: Album Review

Vinny Golia: A Gift for the Unusual: Music for Contrabass Saxophone

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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. ...

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Article: Album Review

Vinny Golia: Music for Like Instruments: The Flutes

Read "Music for Like Instruments: The Flutes" reviewed 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 ...

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Article: Interview

A Fireside Chat with Vinny Golia

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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 ...

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Article: Album Review

The Vinny Golia Quintet: One, Three, Two

Read "One, Three, Two" reviewed 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 ...


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