I feel that Golden City – saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenón’s sweeping suite inspired by the complex and promising history of the Bay Area – is a masterpiece.
Featuring a brilliant band with Zenón, Miles Okazaki, Matt Mitchell, Dan Weiss, Chris Tordini, Daniel Díaz, Alan Ferber, Diego Urcola, and Jacob Garchik, the album will be released August 30 via Miel Music.
One of the most lauded drummers in modern jazz, Dan Weiss, releases his daring and compelling new trio album Even Odds – featuring longtime collaborators alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón and pianist Matt Mitchell – on March 29, 2024 via Cygnus Recordings.
“Undeniably virtuosic and progressive, Weiss works in unconventional ways.” – Filipe Freitas, JazzTrail
“[Weiss is] best known as a virtuosic, in-demand jazz drummer… and an ambitious, imaginative bandleader.” – Hank Shteamer, The New York Times
Pyroclastic Records presents Sculpting Sound, a groundbreaking collection of six once-in-a-lifetime performances bringing together twelve master improvisers with the sound sculptures of visionary artist Harry Bertoia
These captivating performances, available on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2023 via SculptingSound.org, feature Nels Cline, Ben Monder, Ambrose Akinmusire, Nate Wooley, Ingrid Laubrock, JD Allen, Jen Shyu, Brandon Seabrook, Marcus Gilmore, Dan Weiss, Kris Davis and Craig Taborn
Saxophonist/composer Quinsin Nachoff draws inspiration from mythology that seeks to make sense of the unfathomable cosmos on his new album Stars and Constellations, out October 13, 2023 via Adyhâropa Records. Uniting a chord-less jazz trio – Nachoff, bassist Mark Helias and drummer Dan Weiss – with both the Bergamot Quartet, and on one track by The Rhythm Method string quartet, the adventurous album dissolves any division between jazz and classical.
” There’s something strikingly inventive and vivid about Nachoff’s music… composed by a mind that continues to stretch beyond the comfort zone of any genre.” – Friedrich Kunzmann, All About Jazz
“Nachoff’s writing [is] shaped by an engagingly complex musical mind, a sensibility that guarantees the progress of each movement will contain a series of delights and surprises. It’s demanding contemporary music that succeeds at the trick of pulling you in.” – Michael Ullman, The Arts Fuse
Dedication, due out November 11, 2022 via Cygnus Recordings, features Weiss’s longtime trio with pianist Jacob Sacks and bassist Thomas Morgan
