Results for "Vinny Golia"

Nels Cline: The Shape of Sound

by Leo Sidran
March 20, 2025

For nearly two decades, Nels Cline has been best known as the mercurial, shape-shifting guitarist of Wilco, a role that has introduced his name to legions of fans and placed him at the center of a beloved and influential American band. But to reduce Cline's career to his work with Wilco would be to miss the ...

Rich Halley 4: Dusk And Dawn

by Glenn Astarita
October 30, 2024

Rich Halley 4's Dusk and Dawn, is a noteworthy testament to the power of jazz as a narrative medium. The album captures the essence of transitional moments, both in time and sound, weaving a tapestry of intricate melodies and intriguing improvisational sequences. Halley, a veteran of the jazz scene with twenty-six recordings as a leader and ...

James Brandon Lewis: Jazz, Spirituality, and the Art and Science of Musical Abstraction

by Dave Kaufman
April 10, 2024

The contemporary jazz world is currently witnessing an artistic renaissance, characterized by an upsurge in creativity and innovation. This movement is fueled in part by rising stars such as Joel Ross, Immanuel Wilkins, and Isaiah Collier, as well as seasoned veterans like Charles Lloyd, David Murray, William Parker, Joe Lovano, and Bill Frisell, whose creative passion ...

Alice Coltrane, Kaze, Michael Attias & The Fully Celebrated Orchestra

by Maurice Hogue
March 26, 2024

Did you know 2024 has been designated as the Year Of Alice? Impulse Records and the John and Alice Coltrane Home are celebrating Alice this year through special events and new releases. The first album to appear is Alice Coltrane--The Carnegie Hall Concert with all unreleased tracks from a terrific band. This concert in 1971 was ...

Dance & Decay

By Vinny Golia

Label: Rightbrain Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. Clickbait 12:54 2. Churn 10:36 3. Dance & Decay 11:30 4. Precipitation Cycles 11:14

Snarled

By Vinny Golia

Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1 – Snarled 11:17 2 – Meetings 7:43 3 – The Search 6:53 4 – why can’t they just… 7:07

The Other One(s)

By Vinny Golia

Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1 – why can’t they just…#2 (8) 7:30 2 – Crash (7) 4:40 3 – Some Broken Machine (4B) 6:22 4 – Despaired (4C) 7:34 5 – Unrequited Languages (9) 6:24

Caroline Davis, Hery Paz & Niescier/Reid/Harris

by Maurice Hogue
October 17, 2023

Highlights: Captivity, the new recording by saxophonist Caroline Davis is a pointedly social justice album focused on creating reflection, interrogation and amplification of the essential conversation around incarceration, the prison industrial complex & abolition. It's a very powerful project. Another excellent alto player, Germany's Angelika Niescier hooked up with premier cellist Tomeka Reid and drummer Savannah ...

Ron Coulter

Ron Coulter is a percussionist, composer, improviser, researcher, audio engineer, and educator currently based in the Mountain West region. Ron has been a freelance percussionist since 1997, performing in a wide gamut of musical situations from burlesque cabaret to live electronica. As a performer, he has toured internationally appearing in 49 U.S. states, and 11 countries, including: Norway, Croatia, Australia, and most major cities in the European Union, Japan, and Canada. He has performed with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Harry James Orchestra, Four Aces, The Gaylords, Al Martino, Matthew Shipp, Nate Wooley, David Murray, Tony Malaby, Vinny Golia, Hugh Ragin, Sam Newsome, Marvin Hamlisch, Sandy Duncan, Linux Laptop Orchestra, Dr

JD Parran and Mark Deutsch, Daniel Carter, & Irreversible Entanglements

by Maurice Hogue
October 2, 2023

California Street Sessions, a new duo recording by reed master JD Parran and bassist Mark Deutsch, is intriguing, particularly when consider the instrumentation: Parran plays a seldom-heard contralto clarinet while Deutsch plays the bazantar, a hybrid bass that he invented himself. The music's excellent too. Other new albums sampled this week come from Daniel Carter and ...