Release Date: 16 December 2016
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5052442009771
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 16 December 2016
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5052442009771
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
As New York-based saxophonist and composer John O'Gallagher would emphatically relate, there is nothing quite like the concept and energy of a live performance to provide both artist and listener with the affecting, visceral tingle which is at the heart of great music - and especially true when it comes to the spontaneity of improvised jazz.
So the opportunity to offer up these riches to a wider audience, through a live album, has always been an aspiration for the acclaimed altoist and his longtime colleagues Johannes Weidenmueller (bass) and Mark Ferber (drums).
One of the most compelling saxophone improvisers on the New York scene, John O'Gallagher's many collaborators have included Jeff Williams, Ben Monder, Maria Schneider and Kenny Wheeler - and all the years of experience cascade from his alto bell with a seemingly inexhaustible and colorfully individual vocabulary, supported prominently by the high-level, malleable responses of Weidenmueller and Ferber.
Describing the elevated, exposed nature of this three-way partnership, O'Gallagher concludes: "We are constantly listening and taking risks, creating an atmosphere which is exciting to play in - there is no 'wrong', and we all know the paths back. A shared trust provides the confidence to pretty much explore any avenue and be assured that everything will be OK. That transformative, on-the-edge excitement - not knowing what's gonna happen - is what I've always wanted."
Personnel: John O'Gallagher (alto saxophone), Johannes Weidenmueller (double bass), Mark Ferber (drums)
Tracklisting
Sultan Stevenson
Empirical
Lakecia Benjamin
Samara Joy
Josephine Davies
Linley Hamilton
Alice Zawadzki
Alice Zawadzki
Nigel Price Organ Trio
Conrad Herwig
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Su Rossy Girod, Nat Su, Jorge Rossy
Jonathan Salvi Arugula Sextet
Bob Baldwin
Steven Nichols