This happy marriage of new music rooted in contemporary classical and free improvisation springing from jazz indeed provides intricate adventures for the listener who joins Steve Cohn – piano, shakuhachi, traditional instruments, Guillermo Gregorio – clarinet, Masahiko Kono – trombone, Bruce Ditmas – drums, on their journeys through each chapter of The Novel.
The brilliant, singular guitar voice of Rob Reich is heard far and wide, but here it shines a light on his own music. Here renowned double-bassist Gandharva Earl Sauls also contributes tanbura, and drummer Jerrold Kavanagh, whose percussion setup contains many surprises including zither, unite in a sensitive yet driving session that reaches both the heart and mind.
Like predecessor recordings My Goals Beyond by John McLaughlin and Bill Connors Theme To The Guardian on ECM, Jack DeSalvo gives his music a most personal rendering utilizing only six and 12-string acoustic guitars and includes perhaps his most well-known piece, Pramantha.
The third release in UNSEEN RAIN’s specially priced Bootleg Series – complete, unedited, authorized live sets featuring UNSEEN RAIN’s artists – features the exuberant SEND OUT SIGNALS quartet – Matt Lavelle – trumpet, flugelhorn and alto clarinet/Ras Moshe – tenor and soprano saxophones, flute/ Tom Zlabinger – double-bass/ Tom DeSteno – drums – in a powerful set recorded live at Tobacco Road in New York City, recorded direct-to-two-track on April 26, 2012.
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Guitarist and jazz luminary Dom Minasi put together a powerhouse ensemble from the improvised music scene for a live recording of Part 2 of his extended composition, The Bird, The Girl and The Donkey. Performing along with Dom on guitar are Blaise Siwula – alto saxophone/ Ras Moshe – tenor saxophone, flute/ Remi Alvarez, – tenor saxophone, flute/ Matt Lavelle – trumpet, flugelhorn/ Albey Balgochian – double-bass and Jay Rosen – drums.
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Now Available: Matt Lavelle – trumpet, flugelhorn, alto clarinet/ Jack DeSalvo – guitar/ Tony DeCicco – double-bass/ Bruce Ditmas – drums
Steve Cohn – piano, shakuhachi, traditional instruments/ Guillermo Gregorio – clarinet/ Masahiko Kono – trombone/ Bruce Ditmas – drums
In the lineage of the great piano trios (one thinks of Evans and Jarrett), yet transcending 20th Century notions, even of extended interplay, these three interwoven virtuosi provide a canvas of new jazz that has roots in intuitive playing yet is compositionally whole. Pianist Bob Rodriguez, bassist Lee Marvin, and drummer Bruce Ditmas play music that, for all its tunefulness, is truly forward looking.
Clarinetist/alto saxophonist Blaise Siwula’s contribution to the improvised music scene is incalculable. Here on his first recording for UNSEEN RAIN Blaise enlists the brilliance of double bassist Dmitry Ishenko and drummer Dave Miller. Subtle exchanges and variegated soundscapes run rampant on When Rivers Run Free.
Multi-instrumentalist Steve Cohn, this time playing solo piano, creates a set of intimate miniatures and longer pieces that are completely improvised in this equivalent of a 2-CD set .
On their second album for UNSEEN RAIN, Tom Cabrera and Jack DeSalvo provide a global environment for their virtuosic, improvised renderings of deep, passionate music featuring an amazing collection of instruments, including frame drums, mandola, riq, cello, tombak, guitar and darbuka. The result is crystalline beauty, as rare as a Libra Moon.
Fearless multi-instrumentalist Matt Lavelle (trumpet, flugelhorn, alto clarinet) unites
with saxophone powerhouse Ras Moshe (tenor sax, flutes), impeccable double-bassist Tom Zlabinger and legendary drummer Tom DeSteno, sending out signals of of passionate, extemporaneous music on their UNSEEN RAIN debut as a band.
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Jack DeSalvo – mandola, cello, classical guitar/ Herb Kloss – flute, alto flute/ Tom Cabrera – frame drums, riq, tombak, darbuka, percussion
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This ensemble brings trio pianism to the highest level. Piano virtuoso Bob Rodriguez, double-bassist Lee Marvin and Danish drummer Kresten Osgood reveal deeply felt music.
ARTCRIME features the late pioneering touch-style player Frank Jolliffe, who developed his technique first on the Chapman stick and then on the Warr Guitar. John Korchock’s baritone sax, wind synthesizer and keyboards lend unique voices to the proceedings. Add experimental electronic drummer Steve Orbach and the piano, circuit-bent synth and kalimba of Bob Siebert and you have a free-jazz-meets-art-rock extravaganza.
Masterful trombonist Pat Hall, known for his limitless jazz and Latin excursions, conceived of a group where he could incorporate a sheen of electronica into open electric jazz mayhem. Bassist Joe Gallant and drummer/producer Bruce Ditmas provide futuristic sound canvases, sometimes wild, sometimes gentle, for Pat’s trombone, reborn via live laptop treatments and Jack DeSalvo’s electric guitar odysseys into and beyond distant galaxies.
A unique duo performing deep, trans-cultural music that truly travels from ancient traditions to the most contemporary improvisation. Tom Cabrera, frame drums and various percussion and Jack DeSalvo, guitars and mandolin, tell Tales of Coming Home.
Jack DeSalvo performs completely improvised pieces on classical guitar. “I was determined to search for a process that would necessitate moving myself out of the way and allowing music that clearly already exists in some other world, some other dimension, some parallel universe beyond myself, to flow through my instrument, the guitar. Whether or not I have been utterly successful in finding such a lofty process, what we are offering here is completely spontaneous music that is representative of the search.” – Jack DeSalvo
Artwork by Michele Jenkins
Like predecessor recordings My Goals Beyond by John McLaughlin and Bill Connors’ Theme To The Guardian on ECM, Jack DeSalvo gives his music a most personal rendering utilizing only six and 12-string acoustic guitars and includes perhaps his most well-known piece, Pramantha.
Jack DeSalvo – guitar, Tony DeCicco – double-bass, Bruce Ditmas – drums
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Guitarist Jack DeSalvo, along with D3 cohorts double-bassist Tony DeCicco and drummer Bruce Ditmas, create an atmosphere of intimacy with harmonic and rhythmic nuance and power in this, their foray into the jazz cannon.
“[T]his foursome is channeling a Coleman-centric spirit, at once free and vibrant.” – Downbeat
Drummer and multi-percussionist Jon Berger, with old friends Lee Marvin (double bass) and Jack DeSalvo (guitars, alto guitar, mandola) along with multi-reed wizard Dan Willis navigate compositions with roots in jazz, new music and folk and ethnic music with astounding freedom and aplomb.
Legendary reed master Sam Morrison has joined forced with D3 – bassist Tony DeCicco, guitarist Jack DeSalvo and drummer Bruce Ditmas to record OVER THE EDGE, an album of compositional beauty achieved through improvisation and intensive, deep listening.
Chris Kelsey teams with tabla player and drummer/percussionist Tom Tedesco and multi-instrumentalist Jack DeSalvo on banjo, mandolin and various guitars on Stutches, music filled with inventive humor and virtuosic intensity.
On We, STEVE COHN, piano shakuhachi, hichiriki, shofar, khaen, percussion, WILLIAM PARKER, double-bass, tuba, percussion and TOM TEDESCO, drums, percussion unite to create layers of crystalline sound with piano, bass and drums and shakuhachi, tuba and percussion. We are listening.
On Multiple Question Choice, Pat Hall presents his extraordinary trio with Hall on trombone, double-bass virtuoso Peter Herbert and legendary drummer Bruce Ditmas.
Tom DeSteno, drums, 
Jack DeSalvo, guitar, Mark Hagan, double-bass
Traversing the borderlands of the jazz tradition from a modernist perspective, the Tom DeSteno Trio offers their new recording, Coriolis Sky, the first release on mEyeFi Media’s UNSEEN RAIN label. Music by Ornette Coleman, Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, Jack DeSalvo and others is presented as a unified statement featuring powerful performances by Tom DeSteno on drums, guitarist Jack DeSalvo and Mark Hagan on double-bass.
