Everything Forgets
…Bill McHenry, and Eivind Opsvik among others, but his music makes a true statement of its own. More info: joachimbadenhorst.com, simonjermyn.com, willfulmusic.com [Jeff Williams], joesmithmusic.com….
Phoenix
…nd is Music Director of the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra and the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival. For more information: www.patrickzimmerli.com, www.coloradocollege.edu/summersession/musicfestival/ScottYooBio.htm home.earthlink.net/~takeishi/id1.html…
The Book of Hours
…993 he won the first annual BMI/Thelonious Monk Institute Composers’ Competition, and in 1995 he directed the InstituteÕs Jazz Ambassadors, a quintet of past winners that toured Africa (CD on Jazz City). His own CDs include two with his Ensemble, Explosion (SGL 1508, 1995) and Expansion (SGL 1530, 2000), and Twelve Sacred Dances (commissioned by the…
Places You Go
…e and poise is no less impressive. Their next album can’t come out fast enough.” —Rick Anderson, Allmusic.com (reviewing his previous trio CD Drip) Well, four years later here it is, although there’s been a basic change: organ instead of double bass. Shepik explains: “I met Gary on a gig in New York about four years ago and have been hoping to do…
Dice Thrown
…s the case on Dice Thrown.” — Nils Jacobson, AllAboutJazz.com “…the compositions are highly creative improvisations which seem to live in a space neither part of the jazz nor the classical worlds…Houle explores an inspiring of new range of sounds…Delbecq first of all plays a Bosendorfer Imperial Grand – the most audiophile piano with its extra bass…
Tyft
…y on this project, mostly because the trust between us is complete. My intention was to see if we could blend together our composed melodic and rhythmic ideas and our improvisation with the electronic world that we all have a fascination for. Not an uncommon attempt, but I had in mind a unique blend that I had not heard elsewhere. The music is not h…
Grand Laps
…end our concerts, there is some magic going on.” For more information: hubertdupont.com, delbecq.net, guillaumeorti.com, stephanegalland.com. View the making-of video here….
Nemesis
…this quintet an almost orchestral richness. I love the uncommon combination of trumpet and electric guitar, and wrote these pieces specifically with Ron and Khabu’s sounds in mind. I first heard Ron in about 1993, in a basement space with an audience of about five. He had one of the most beautiful trumpet sounds IÕd ever heard – simultaneously joyo…
Genera
…sity and expressivity, then I shouldn’t be too far off my ideal of what music means to me personally.” For more info: delbecq.net, taylorhobynum.com, samuelblaser.com, harriseisenstadt.com, outsidesources.org (Michael Bates) Nominated for a Juno Award, 2013…
The Well
…y-esque. Shepik’s got the mind of a pioneer. The rhythmic complexity of his compositions has few parallels in jazz — or any other genre, for that matter. With all his exotic influences, and all his different axes, he makes us rethink what it means to be a guitarist and a musician.” — David R. Adler, AllAboutJazz.com “…skillful music performed with t…
