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Ground (album)
This is the discography for American jazz musician Nels Cline. As leader With Acoustic Guitar Trio With Banyan (band), Banyan With Quartet Music With Wilco With other bands As sideman References {{Nels Cline Discographies of American artists Jazz discographies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nels Cline
Nels Courtney Cline (born January 4, 1956) is an American guitarist and composer. He has been a guitarist for the band Wilco since 2004. In the 1980s he played jazz, often in collaboration with his twin brother Alex, a percussionist. He has worked with musicians in punk and alternative rock such as Carla Bozulich and the Geraldine Fibbers, Mike Watt and Thurston Moore. He leads the Nels Cline Singers, Nels Cline Trio, and the Nels Cline 4. Cline was named the 82nd greatest guitarist of all time by ''Rolling Stone'' magazine in November 2011. Career Cline began to play guitar at age 12 when his twin brother Alex Cline started playing drums. The brothers developed together musically, playing in a rock band called Homogenized Goo. Both graduated from University High School. Cline cites hearing a recording of Jimi Hendrix performing "Manic Depression" as a defining moment in his decision to become a guitarist. Cline has performed on over 150 albums in jazz, pop, rock, count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirty Baby
''Dirty Baby'' (stylized as ''DIRTY BABY'') is an album by American guitarist Nels Cline performing compositions inspired by Edward Ruscha, which was released in October 2010 on the Cryptogramophone label. ''Dirty Baby'' is also the name of a multi-media book of Cline's music, paintings by Ruscha, and the poetry of David Breskin, also released in 2010. It features sixty-six paintings by Ruscha, Cline's original music, and poems by Breskin that employ the ancient Arabic poetic form of the ghazal. Reception ''Dirty Baby'' received mainly positive reviews on release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received a score of 74, based on 6 reviews which is categorised as generally favorable. The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars out of 5, stating "''Dirty Baby'' is a singular accomplishment, presented in a fashion that demands more of the listener's attention but buy pays off handsomely. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consentrik Quartet
''Consentrik Quartet'' is a studio album by American composer Nels Cline. It was released on March 14, 2025, by Blue Note Records. The fourth release by Cline on Blue Note, it was performed with his ensemble of the same name, featuring German jazz saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, American drummer Tom Rainey, and double-bassist Chris Lightcap. Background Consisting of twelve songs ranging between four and five minutes each with the exception of "Satomi", which is over nine minutes long, the album's runtime exceeds an hour and seven minutes. Describing the title, Cline noted it as the word "concentric" with a "k at the end" in Middle English, and included the word "consent". Cline first performed with the ensemble before the COVID-19 pandemic at an event in Brooklyn by John Zorn, and started to create material for the album during the lockdowns. The album's lead single, "The 23", was released on January 16, 2025. Reception AllMusic remarked that "''Consentrik Quartet'' is a bracing st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ESP Disk
ESP-Disk is a New York–based record company and label founded in 1963 by lawyer Bernard Stollman. History Though it originally existed to release Esperanto-based music, beginning with its second release (Albert Ayler's ''Spiritual Unity''), ESP became the most important exponent of what is commonly referred to as free jazz. Early releases included albums by Paul Bley, Pharoah Sanders and Sun Ra. ESP also released recordings by uncommercial underground rock acts including the Fugs, The Godz and Pearls Before Swine. The label's motto is "The artists alone decide what you will hear." Bernard Stollman faced allegations of not paying royalties to the artists that were signed to ESP-Disk. Tom Rapp of the band Pearls Before Swine claimed that: "We never got any money from ESP. Never, not even like a hundred dollars or something. My real sense is that he tollmanwas abducted by aliens, and when he was probed it erased his memory of where all the money was". Peter Stampfel of the ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Currents, Constellations
''Currents, Constellations'' is an album by The Nels Cline 4 that was released in April 2018 by the Blue Note label. Reception The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek stated "In the aftermath of 2014's highly regarded ''Room'', the acoustic encounter between guitarists Nels Cline and Julian Lage, both men speculated on what adding a rhythm section might sound like ... ''Currents, Constellations'' is virtually free of excess. Instead, it delivers a panoramic approach to group interaction with abundant dynamic and harmonic variety. From jazz to rock to improv, this set is a remarkable illustration of the question Cline and Lage posed about what they would sound like with a rhythm section. Damn fine is the answer". On All About Jazz, Mike Jurkovic said "the pointillist, textured music found on ''Currents, Constellations'' comes as no surprise and great welcome. He and Lage simply play as if of one mind, unglued from any preconceived notions or tight-ass dogma".Jurkovic, MAll About Jazz Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label now owned by Universal Music Group and operated under Capitol Music Group. Established in 1939 by History of the Jews in Germany, German-Jewish emigrants Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derived its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz around 1947. From there, Blue Note grew to become one of the most prolific, influential and respected jazz labels of the mid-20th century, noted for its role in facilitating the development of hard bop, post-bop and avant-garde jazz, as well as for its iconic modernism, modernist art direction. History Historically, Blue Note has principally been associated with the "hard bop" style of jazz (mixing bebop with other forms of music including soul music, soul, blues, rhythm and blues and gospel music, gospel), but also recorded essential albums in the avant-gard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovers (Nels Cline Album)
''Lovers'' is an album by guitarist Nels Cline which was released in August 2016 on the Blue Note label. Cline stated " I hope ''Lovers'' offers something of an update of the 'mood music' idea and ideal, while celebrating and challenging our iconic notion of romance". Reception In Rolling Stone Will Hermes wrote "An update of Fifties "mood music", this chilled-out instrumental soundtracks for breakfast in bed with mai-tais and late-night booty calls, ''Lovers'' is a departure for Wilco guitar swami Nels Cline, whose side projects generally involve free-jazz freakouts. That's not to say that this wordless double-disc set, featuring an all-star orchestra full of sharp improvisers, isn't wildly inventive in its water-colored way". Pitchfork's Seth Colter Walls rated the album 7.6 out of 10, saying, "Cline has delivered a chamber-orchestra set that’s notable for relying on some “Great American Songbook” standards by the likes of Jerome Kern and Rodgers & Hammerstein... The only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Relative Pitch Records
Relative Pitch Records is an American independent record label specializing in free jazz and avant-garde jazz, free improvisation, and experimental music. Run by Kevin Reilly, Relative Pitch has been ranked among the top jazz record labels in ''The New York City Jazz Record'' and ''DownBeat'' year-end lists, and praised by publications and organizations including ''The Guardian'', NPR Music, ''The Brooklyn Rail'', and in ''Bandcamp Daily'''s label profile, "Relative Pitch is Built on Enthusiasm for Experimental Music". History Co-founders Kevin Reilly and Mike Panico first met waiting in line at a show and later spent time together as volunteers at The Stone, an experimental music space then located in the East Village. They eventually decided to start a record label, and co-founded Relative Pitch in 2011. Both Reilly and Panico attended a large number of avant-jazz performances, as noted by many of the label's artists. In a 2013 feature, Mary Halvorson asserted that “Wha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macroscope (album)
''Macroscope'' is the fifth album by The Nels Cline Singers led by American guitarist Nels Cline which was released in April 29, 2014 on the Mack Avenue label. Reception The Allmusic review by Sean Westergaard awarded the album 4 stars out of 5, stating "while the Nels Cline Singers may have a new bass player and a new label, fortunately their sound has not changed. They're still making some of the most interesting, adventurous, genre-smashing music of the early 21st century. Guitar nerds need to check this out, but it's got wider appeal than that too". The Guardian's John Fordham rated the album 3 stars out of 5, saying, "''Macroscope'' is a blast through warped Latin music, Hendrix freakouts, double-taking George Bensonian smoothness, electronica and grunge". Writing for All About Jazz, Matt Marshall stated "Since this is a Nels Cline album there are, of course, guitar solos of blistering beauty. But these moments are but part of an organic progression of an ever- roiling mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mack Avenue Records
Mack Avenue Records is an independent record label in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Background Mack Avenue was founded in 1999 by Gretchen Carhartt Valade, a jazz fan and Chairperson, chair of the American apparel company Carhartt. The company is a sponsor of the Detroit International Jazz Festival, Detroit Jazz Festival, to which Gretchen Valade donated $15 million in 2006. Early Mack recording artists included Terry Gibbs, Oscar Castro-Neves, and George Shearing. Over time Mack Avenue signed veteran jazz musicians such as Gary Burton, Kevin Eubanks, Stanley Jordan, Christian McBride, Gerald Wilson, and the Yellowjackets (band), Yellowjackets. Acquisitions made in 2008 expanded the label's catalogue into additional genres, such as the blues, Gospel music, gospel, and rhythm and blues (rhythm and blues, R&B), with Jonathan Butler, Brian Bromberg, Rick Braun, Richard Elliot, and Kenny Rankin. Mack Avenue's recording artists have earned multiple Grammy Award, Grammy awards and nom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Room (Nels Cline And Julian Lage Album)
''Room'' is an album by guitarists Nels Cline and Julian Lage which was released in November 2014 on the Mack Avenue label. Reception Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars out of 5, with reviewer Thom Jurek stating "For all its starkness, on ''Room'' these players not only support one another, they create space for reconsideration and expansion. Cline takes Lage further out onto the improvisational ledge than he's ever been before, while Lage draws Cline toward a sense of lyricism and restraint he hasn't employed in many years. ''Room'' betrays no hesitation, displays no false moves, offers no space for safety. And that's just how this duo likes it. It is abundant in its offer of pleasure for fans of guitar jazz and it may even hold wider appeal for those who are drawn to in-the-moment musical creation". The Irish Times' Cormac Larkin rated the album 4 stars out of 5, saying, "''Room'' is as fresh and creative a meeting of two musicians as you’ll find". JazzTimes' Mike Shanley sai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porter Records
Porter Records is a United States record label that specializes in jazz, hiphop, electronic, world, and experimental music. Its catalog is self-described as "music for the eclectic listener", with albums by artists Henry Grimes, Joe Chambers, Pregnant (band) , Pregnant, Matthew Welch, Heikki Sarmanto, Chll Pll, and Mason Lindahl, among others. See also * List of record labels References External links * "A Collector's Rewards"feature about Porter Records by AllAboutJazz.com Stereo SubversionInterview with Zach Hill of Chll Pll about "Aggressively Humble" DRAM listing 
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