PRESS
HIGHLIGHTS
Village
Voice
(Mar. 2008)
Jazz
Improv Magazine
(Spring
2007)
Cadence
(Jan.
2007)
The
Wire 2006 Rewind - link
(Jan.
2007)
All
Music Guide
(2007)
Village
Voice
(Dec.
2006)
Jazz
Journalists Association 2006 TOP 10 Jazz Recordings
(Dec.
2006)
Saxophone
Journal
(Sept./Oct.
2006)
AllAboutJazz
- link
(Sept.
2006)
Irish
Times
(July 2006)
NY
Times
(June 2006)
- more press -
LINKS
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www.myspace.com/jasonrigbyquartet
Musicians/Bands
Scott
Anderson
Darcy James Argue
Mike Baggetta
David Binney
Anita Brown
Cameron
Brown
Gerald Cleaver
Sylvie Courvoisier
Jeff Davis
Kris Davis
Scott Dubois
Ellery Eskelin
Alan Ferber
Heernt
Mike
Holober
Russ Johnson
Tony Malaby
John McNeil
Eivind Opsvik
Phil Palombi
Robert Sabin
Sam Sadigursky
Chris Speed
Great
Photographers
Colleen Chrzanowski
Juan Carlos Hernandez
Other
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union of concerned scientists
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RECENT
NEWS
> A new project on Fresh Sound Records to be released September 2008,
"The Sage" featuring Gerald Cleaver, Cameron Brown, Mike Holober & Russ Johnson.
CD Release Party on Friday Oct. 17 at Cornelia Street Cafe, followed by a
European Tour late Oct.
> "Translucent Space" available on iTunes 
, and at freshsoundrecords.com.
>
Wire Magazine (UK) named Jason Rigby's "Translucent
Space" as one of the
Top 15 JAZZ & IMPROV RECORDINGS
of 2006
> "Translucent Space" ranked one of
the TOP 10 Jazz Recordings of 2006 by the Jazz Journalsists
Association.
Photo by Colleen Chrzanowski
Jason Rigby has received notable acclaim for his recordings and performances from The New York Times, The Village Voice, Wire Magazine and AllAboutJazz. His debut leader effort, Translucent Space, has been praised by a number of critics as one of the top jazz recordings of 2006. Jim Macnie of the Village Voice states:
"Diverse program" is sometimes a euphemism for "hodge-podge," but the young reed player's Translucent Space accounts for all its aesthetic zig-zags. Allusions to electric jazz and classical motifs snuggle next to free-bop jaunts and hard-driving swing. Rigby plays as it lays, and does so with élan.
Not bound to traditional harmony, Rigby bases many of his fresh-sounding originals on free-style melodies and ostinato rhythmic patterns. His artistic approach is a mixture of melodicism, free-bop, minimalism, modal thrashing, lush harmonic progressions and both chaos and control.
Hailed as a truly lyrical musician and "New York's rising star of tenor sax", Jason Rigby has performed, toured and recorded as a leader of his own band and has contributed as a sideman to a number of musically creative ventures. Rigby has toured the US and Europe, and has appeared at many of NY's top music venues including the 55 Bar, The Village Vanguard, Cornelia Street Cafe, The Stone, Small's, The Jazz Gallery, The Jazz Standard, The Knitting Factory, Barbes, Smoke, B.B. King's, Pete's Candy Store, Sweet Rhythm, Piano's, Bowery Poetry Club, NuBlu, Detour, The Tea Lounge, Galapagos, Madison Square Garden Theater and Radio City Music Hall.
During his university study Jason Rigby was the winner of DOWNBEAT Magazine's Award for 'Best College Jazz Instrumentalist' in 1999. Rigby received a full scholarship to attend Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Dick Oatts, Mike Abene and Rich Perry.
Jason Rigby's musical approach has been described as a "synthesis of Wayne Shorter and Ornette Coleman, with echoes of Paul Motian's trio," balancing "Shorter's elliptical nuance and Coltrane's ecstatic fluidity." While striving to create his own personal sound, Rigby looks to a myriad of sources for inspiration including Bartok, Berg, Paul Bley, Joe Henderson, Dewey Redman, Ernest Hemingway, Mahler, Paul Motian, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
MP3
sound files from "Translucent Space" are copyrighted ©
& © 2006 by Fresh Sound Records. Warning: All rights of this
production, and of the composers are reserved. Unauthorized copying of
this recording are prohibited.
©2006
Jasthori Music.
All other MP3 sound files copyrighted ©2008 by Jasthori Music, ASCAP.
UPCOMING
PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS
Aug. 22 - NY, NY - 9PM
Cornelia St. Cafe
Cameron Brown Quartet
Oct. 17 - NYC - 9PM
Cornelia St. Cafe
JASON RIGBY QUINTET
CD Release "The Sage"
- more performances & details-
LISTEN
from March 2008 recording session:
Slip
Moon Goddess
(JR - saxo., Russ Johnson - tpt., Mike
Holober - rhds., Cameron Brown - bs.,
Gerald Cleaver - dms.)
from LIVE performance at NYC's
Cornelia St. Cafe, March 2008:
The Sage
Crux
(JR - saxo., Russ Johnson - tpt., Mike
Holober - rhds., Cameron Brown - bs.,
Gerald Cleaver - dms.)
from Translucent Space:
Proximo
Turquoise Turkish
114
Southampton [UK]
from LIVE performance at NYC's
Cornelia St. Cafe, Dec. 2006:
Frank Lloyd Wright
(JR - saxo., Mike Holober - rhds., Phil
Palombi - bs., Sean Carpio - dms.)
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