Canada Day II
…e for a very satisfying listen. For more info: natewooley.com; chrisdingman.com; eivindopsvik.com; mattbauder.net. “Canada Day has been Eisenstadt’s primary vehicle for integrating his divergent interests since 2007, often yielding a rich fusion of inside and outside concepts that remain palatable to mainstream sensibilities. A masterful tunesmith…
Way Below the Surface
…ream, it’s a very happy feeling that can be heard in the essence of the music.” For bios and more information: arvehenriksen.com, delbecq.net, www.larsjuul.eu, plush-internet.org/artist_arguelles.htm…
Matt Choboter
… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4K22Vb5udE …
Last Century
…performed the music of Nicole Lizée, Lawrence Crane, and Scott Godin. For more info: thomgossage.com, milesperkin.com….
Humming
…onfidence they had in their improvising, and the way they combined precision with looseness. I’ve felt total freedom in composing for them. I knew they would be able to play everything I had in my head and still find a way to make it their own. “One of the things in improvising and composing I’ve been interested in lately is the layering of melodies…
Nu-Turn
…tonishing structured improvisations; the final, 12-minute composition is a computer-created ambient “remix” that completely transforms the solo material. Recorded in a small concert hall directly to 6 channel DSD (the sixth channel is an optional height channel), the piano sound is remarkably realistic, and the music beguiling in its rhythmic-melodi…
Expansion
…993 he won the first annual BMI/Thelonious Monk Institute Composers’ Competition, in 1995 he directed the Institute’s Jazz Ambassadors, a quintet of past winners that toured Africa (CD on Jazz City), and in 1996 his Ensemble gave eight concerts at the Guggenheim Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Abstraction in the 20th Century: Total Risk, D…
Pursuit
…z “It’s rare to hear something this original. The closest comparison I can come up with is the Jimmy Giuffre 3 with an extra clarinetist and percussion. Benoit Delbecq’s compositions, while not as inscrutably beautiful or as blues-y as Giuffre’s, have a similar sort of cool abstraction about them. Delbecq hails from France, and he has worked with Br…
Across the Way
…nformation: tombeckham.net, markguiliana.com, jorgeroeder.com “…The combination of crystalline vibes and fluid guitar lines immediately recalls Gary Burton’s quartet with Pat Metheny (specifically 1976’s Passengers). This quality is particularly evident on the evocative, chamber-like numbers ‘Down the Hill’ and ‘Garden.’ The moody title track, und…
The Bay Window
…guage, tools, colours, otherwise it’s not fair. Even a newcomer in the band should feel comfortable with this. If we were a sect, and if only members of the sect could sit in, it would be the wrong train.” It’s easy enough to hear the sophisticated rapport that allows them to negotiate what Ollivier calls “the mobile architecture of the compositions…
