★★★★★
In the liners, drummer Jerry Granelli mentions, "the heart of the band is risk, not knowing, curiosity and nowness." In effect, this quasi, blues-jazz improvisational rock centric outing is entrenched within various non-formulaic events. However, the mixture of composed material and explorative tendencies, all adds up to an effort that defies rigid boundaries. It's an acoustic-electric set, featuring bassist Anthony Cox, guitarists David Tronzo, and Christian Kogel...
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2010-08-23
★★★★★
It's easy to mention drummer Jerry Granelli's accomplishments, but hard to really make clear his importance, or the way he's continuously, over forty years, been at the forefront of most of the innovations and new movements in jazz music. Granelli grew up in San Francisco and made his mark drumming for pianists Vince Guaraldi and Denny Zeitlin...
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2010-08-20
★★★★★
Track Listing: Like a Ghost in the Grass, Our Particular Tragedy, 20 Questions for an Outlaw, Nolan, River of Glass, Your Voice, Just Angels, Last Light, Little White Suit, Never to See You, Smart Women, Spun Like a Spur Personnel: Rinde Eckert--voice; Francois Houle--clarinet; Jeff Reilly--bass Clarinet; Dave Mott--baritone saxophone; Christoph Both--cello; Christian Kogel--guitars; J...
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2009-06-05
★★★★★
Track Listing: Temptation; O Bossa, Where Art Thou?; Lunch with Mr. Wong / Leaving Mr. Wong's; Acoustic Trio;Acoustic Duo; Cassius; Hobo Comedies; Family Man; Walk By; Mutator; Good Wheat; TexasOklahoma Conspiracy; Black Confederacy. Personnel: Jerry Granelli: electro-acoustic percussion; Anthony Cox: acoustic bass and acoustic bass guitar;David Tronzo: acoustic and electric guitars, sampler; Christian Kögel: acoustic and electric guitars,sampler...
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2009-06-05
★★★★★
This is one curious date. It's a session made up of amazing players -- Charlie Haden, Ralph Towner (who plays synth!?), Julian Priester, Robben Ford, Jay Clayton, Denny Goodchew, and drummer Granelli -- who can't make up their mind what they want to be. There are times, like on the title track, when what we're hearing is some sort of world music/jazz fusion with synthetic keyboard lines primped against some kind of polyrhythm-light texture that goes nowhere...
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2008-08-27
★★★★★
Crowd Theory documents the second outing by Jerry Granelli's Badlands, a group which finds the venerable drummer surrounded by a fiery band of young Brooklynites: reedists Chris Speed, Peter Epstein, and Briggan Krauss, trombonist Curtis Hasselbring, keyboardist Jamie Saft, and bassist J. Anthony Granelli...
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2008-08-27
★★★★★
Percussionist Jerry Granelli and clarinetist Jeff Reilly made this austere, experimental recording in Nova Scotia, where their colleague John Little forges iron sound sculptures. Granelli and Reilly both play these sculptures, creating otherworldly sounds that mesh spontaneously with electro-acoustic percussion, clarinet, and bass clarinet. As Granelli puts it in the liner notes, "The music was already present in the metal...
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2008-08-27
★★★★★
Like Wilco's Glenn Kotche, Jerry Granelli might be described as an atmospheric drummer. His work all over The Only Juan, his duet CD with pianist Jamie Saft (as well as the roughly contemporaneous Iron Sky with clarinetist Jeff Reilly), is beautiful, resonant, and -- at times -- quite difficult...
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2008-08-27
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