Recent Posts Tagged With freebop

• Stephen Gauci, Notable Tenor Saxist and Bandleader

  Posted on Monday January 25th, 2010 at 06:43 am in modern jazz tenor saxophone freebop stephen gauci

  Stephen Gauci has one of those well-developed, well-burnished freebop tenor sax styles. He has been making a number of records under his own name and with the Michael Bisio group, mostly for CIMP Records. We've looked at some of them on this and the ...

• Drummer Mike Reed Helps Define Modern Chicago Jazz

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 07:35 am in modern jazz from chicago freebop

  Today, more interesting new Chicago jazz, this time headed by drummer Mike Reed and his People, Places & Things ensemble. About Us (482 Music) brings to light the second in a projected three disk trilogy covering a kind of homage to Chicagoland's...

• Appealing Raw Avant Freebop from The Other Tet

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 07:54 am in free jazz avant jazz freebop

  The Other Tet? Yes. It's Bill Lowe (perhaps aptly) on the bass trombone and tuba, diving into the murky depths of those instruments with a burry sound that provides atmosphere as well as soul. On the tuba, a modern-day Ray Draper comes to mind; on th...