Andrew Drury Discography of CDs

Andrew Drury music CDs Composer and drummer Andrew Drury with his pen and sticks is busy erasing the lines between jazz and contemporary chamber music. On Momentary Lapse, he employs the framework of an improvising jazz ensemble for music informed by classic compositional techniques. "Vaxjo Kollektiv," with its Eastern European seasoning, evokes the spirit of Bartók. The very way Drury orchestrates his front line of dual saxophones and violin testifies to his deftness in bringing together ...

Andrew Drury discography Drummer Andrew Drury released his first solo CD in 1998 on the Montréal label Red Toucan. He is surrounded mainly by reedman Craig Flory, guitarist Timothy Young, and acoustic bassist Phil Sparks. Guests Eyvind Kang (violin), Brent Arnold (cello), and Steve Moore (trombone) appear on three tracks each. All Drury compositions, the ten pieces are mostly rhythm-based complex avant jazz tunes with elements of avant-prog creeping in. One thinks of Virgil Moorefield's ...

Andrew Drury CD discography Liner Note Author: Jason Kao Hwang. Recording information: Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, NJ (02/16/2011-02/18/2011). Director: Philip Blackburn. Photographers: Scott Friedlander; Jason Kao Hwang. Personnel: Jason Kao Hwang (violin); Sun Li (pipa); Wang Guowei (erhu); Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet, flugelhorn); Steve Swell (trombone); Joseph Daley (tuba); Andrew Drury (drum set). Audio Mixers: Ken Filiano; Jason Kao Hwang.

Andrew Drury albums The music of violinist Jason Kao Hwang and the quartet Edge on their second CD is so intangibly inviting and elusive that to describe it with mere words might be folly. Empowered by a balanced combination of composition, improvisation, and telepathy, not to mention an infinite amount of elements, this recording must be heard in its own context and stance. First off, the personnel of bassist Ken Filiano, drummer Andrew Drury and ...

Andrew Drury music CDs On 2008's SOLAR FORGE, issued on the revered ESP-Disk label, the New York City trio Totem> unveils a striking set of experimental/free-jazz pieces. Consisting of downtown players Bruce Eisenbeil (guitar), Tom Blancarte (bass), and Andrew Drury (drums), the group mines an abstract, almost mechanistic vein at times, as heard on "Blooming Ore" and the album's other metallurgic tracks. TOTEM> is a benchmark in the world of experimental sound and contemporary improvisation: a noise ...

Andrew Drury discography An answer to the future of the orchestra and improvisational music, Jason Kao Hwang's Spontaneous River is an orchestra of over 35 string improvisers plus drum set. Jason is one of the pioneers of contemporary jazz improvisation on the violin and viola, Liner Note Author: Thomas Stanley . Recording information: Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY (04/24/2010). Photographer: Nick Ruechel. Personnel: Jason Kao Hwang (violin); David Ross, Dom Minasi, Hans Tammen, James Keepnews, Cristian Amigo, Brad Farberman, ...

Andrew Drury songs Jason Kao Hwang's jazz quartet EDGE, founded in 2005, has released three CDs: "EDGE" (AsianImprov, 2006), "Stories Before Within" (Innova, 2007), and now "Crossroads Unseen"(Euonymus, 2011). "For Crossroads Unseen, each composition is a language of vibrations that accrues into theenergy and mass of an emotive landscape. Improvisations cross this primal land confrontinglife and death rhythmically, as sounds are born and pass away unceasing. Throughout theselife cycles, the edge shifts between cultures and genres as individual vibrations tune into thewhole sound of the land. The quest is towards full resonance, a journey that is ...