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Matt Ulery's Loom - Music Box Ballerina
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Musicians:
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Matt Ulery
Visit Matt Ulery's Website on ChicagoJazz.com
Description:
The music, rooted in American and European jazz traditions and comprised of highly syncopated rhythms, modern jazz harmony, and improvisation, is also influenced by folk music from the Americas and Eastern Europe and modern alternative and indie rock from all over the world. Ulery's music has been described as fanciful and cinematic.
Reviews:
The buzz!
“Points with conviction to a new generation of Chicago jazz innovators.
A polished and impressive debut.” -Neil Tesser, Chicago Reader
"Ulery is one of jazz’s modern-day visionaries -Beep Magazine
"...like a seedling unfurling from the soil. ...each player—and each style and tradition the band draws on—is like a thread in a sumptuous fabric"
-Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader
"It has the melancholy beauty of something ravishing but out-of-season. And it is quite moving.
This CD is an unexpected surprise and quite absorbing listening.Ulery plays a distinctive bass and writes with originality. The ensemble has a unique sound and covers plenty of ground." -Cadence Magazine
“True aficionados in love with the art of music creation and exploration search entire lifetimes for the joy of experiencing the ultimate in musicianship, inventiveness and a worldly sampling of personal expression deep from within: In other words -- the true essence of the musician's being transmitted through his music, whether written, sung or doled out from the heart on a single instrument or an auditorium-sized ensemble. You will find that sound, that perfectionism and the depth that brings true original music to life, on this CD. This in not just another recorded effort in search of marketability. More pointedly, it is a study in the life, the breath and the wholeness of worldwide musical genius in unison. You've never experienced anything like it.”
-jazz critic, Matt P. Spinello
"(Music Box Ballerina) could be a soundtrack for dreams, with moments of supremely haunting beauty amidst glorious textures.
This is composition and ensemble playing at a truly mature and satisfying level." -Brad Walseth, jazzchicago.net
About:
Matt Ulery's 'Loom' has been captivating audiences for over 3 years. The first cd release, Music Box Ballerina, has been a long time coming and highly anticipated. Loom, which consists of Thad Franklin on trumpet, Tim Haldeman on tenor saxophone, Jon Deitemyer on drums, Rob Clearfield on accordian and piano, Zach Brock on violin, and Matt Ulery on double bass and compositions, come together on Music Box Ballerina with eight original compositions of Ulery's which have been a part of the group's live repitoire for the last year. In addition, the mesmerizing, innovative, Polish jazz singer, Grazyna Auguscik, appears on one track of the album. Ulery has been performing with Auguscik for 3 years all over the U.S. and Europe as well as appearing on her two latest albums.