Gerry Hemingway Quintet at Cornelia Street Cafe

Saturday, Apr 16 - 9:00PM & 10:30PM
GERRY HEMINGWAY QUINTET
Oscar Noriega, alto, clarinet, bass clarinet; Ellery Eskelin , tenor sax; Terrence McManus, guitar; Kermit Driscoll, bass; Gerry Hemingway, drums
Lucy McManus
The quintet appearing on April 16th has evolved from Hemingway's long standing compositional platform that began in 1985 with the recording of "Outerbridge Crossing" and has enjoyed numerous incarnations while retaining its penchant for an integrative compositional/improvisational ensemble approach. What that adds up to is a compositional practice that has refined a way to frame the individual member's unique sonic, interpretive and improvisational vocabulary with pieces that are detailed, structured and rich with content. The character of the music is multi-faceted, from coloristic subtlety to visceral intensity, sometimes the groove is deep and other times the rhythmic interplay is elaborate and mischievous....

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Saturday, Apr 16 - 9:00PM & 10:30PM
GERRY HEMINGWAY QUINTET
Oscar Noriega, alto, clarinet, bass clarinet; Ellery Eskelin , tenor sax; Terrence McManus, guitar; Kermit Driscoll, bass; Gerry Hemingway, drums
Lucy McManus
The quintet appearing on April 16th has evolved from Hemingway's long standing compositional platform that began in 1985 with the recording of "Outerbridge Crossing" and has enjoyed numerous incarnations while retaining its penchant for an integrative compositional/improvisational ensemble approach. What that adds up to is a compositional practice that has refined a way to frame the individual member's unique sonic, interpretive and improvisational vocabulary with pieces that are detailed, structured and rich with content. The character of the music is multi-faceted, from coloristic subtlety to visceral intensity, sometimes the groove is deep and other times the rhythmic interplay is elaborate and mischievous.
The quintet will be performing material from their soon to be released CD entitled "Riptide" coming out this summer on the Clean Feed label as well as presenting some re-arrangments of previous quintet material for this new instrumentation and personnel which combines players from ongoing & previous quartet and quintet projects.

"Hemingway is going where few jazz musicians have gone before, and he's doing it with rare intelligence and musical sophistication. In fact, this album is so good, I'm inspired to dust off the most hackneyed two-word phrase in the critic's lexicon: "highly recommended." Seldom has its use been more apt." Chris Kelsey, CounterCurrents - JazzTimes

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