Explosion
…one of which won him the first Thelonious Monk Institute Jazz Composer’s competition in 1993. As artistic director of the Monk Institute’s Jazz Ambassadors, he toured Africa in the spring of 1995 and produced their debut CD. He can also be heard on record in groups led by drummer Jeff Williams and pianist Hiromi Saito. Ben Monder leads his own trio…
Origami
…1972), studied at the New England Conservatory (M.M. in jazz composition) with Joe Maneri and has performed/recorded with Gunther Schuller, Lionel Hampton, Paul Bley, Combustible Edison, and Ellery Eskelin. He leads Sideshow (Songs of Charles Ives, CRI – Blue Shift), Slavic Soul Party! (s/t, Bell Cry Music), and his Trio, and plays in the Mat Maner…
Way Below the Surface
…o creating it has something in common. Its language might come from avant jazz, post-rock, ambient/electronica, interactive computer music, “ethnic” music, process music, contemporary classical composed music, or almost anywhere. It’s often “slow,” on the analogy of slow food perhaps, relishing the synergy of individual flavors and the process of fi…
Matt Choboter
… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4K22Vb5udE …
(co)incidents
…es on all of the above and more. Nodwell’s long, episodic compositions (the shortest of the four tracks clocks in at just under 16 minutes) unfold slowly and thoughtfully, as rigorous composed passages give way to open form improvisation and back again…The leader’s nimble soprano conjures images of Asian and Eastern European winds more frequently th…
Humming
…form of John Zorn. The collaboration here with trumpeter Bill Clark begs for a Dave Douglas/Zorn/Masada comparison especially from the track ‘Plant.’ — Mark Corroto, AllAboutJazz.com “Easily overlooked but not easily forgotten…The electronics are so well integrated that one is aware of music, not ‘electronics’…Humming is a winner.” — Lafolia.com …
Nu-Turn
…edgy) resolution…quite a trip.” — Nils Jacobson, AllAboutJazz.com Choc! (*****) “…great poetry, abstract and lunar. In the manner of a mathematical and mineral reverie, Nu-turn achieves something vital. As seldom happens, a purely contemplative abstraction is joined with a lyricism all the more touching for not giving off all of its savor immediatel…
Expansion
…saxophonist pursues a sound and style that is clearly his own!” — Glenn Astarita, AllAboutJazz.com …
Pursuit
…ait the follow-up to this superb release.” — Dave Wayne, Jazzweekly.com “[Delbecq] figures today among the most inventive musicians on the European scene…Enlightened experimenter of a music decidedly personal in the way it links apparently contradictory influences from the freest improvisation and the ultra-sophisticated constructions of contemporar…
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…
