The Squid's Ear Magazine


Bishop / Karayorgis / Smith: Duals [3 CDs] <i>[Used Item]</i> (Driff Records)

Three albums of three duos between three frequent Boston collaborators and improvisers -- Jeb Bishop on trombone, Pandelis Karayorgis on piano and Damon Smith on double bass -- each CD respectively a combination of trombone & bass, piano & bass and piano & trombone, each recorded during the last year of Jeb Bishop's residency in Boston between 2016-2022.
 

Price: $14.95


Quantity:

Out of Stock.

Quantity in Basket: None

Log In to use our Wish List
Shipping Weight: 3.00 units

Sample The Album:





product information:

Personnel:



Jeb Bishop-trombone

Pandelis Karayorgis-piano

Damon Smith-bass


Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist.




UPC: 5904224871635

Label: Driff Records
Catalog ID: CD2203
Squidco Product Code: 33332

Format: 3 CDs
Condition: VG
Released: 2022
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold 3 Panels
CD1 recorded on October 13th, 2021.

CD2 recorded on May 19th, 2022.

CD3 recorded on June 8th, 2022.

This is a USED (previously owned) item

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.
Previously played Squidco store copy, used for cataloging and samples, in excellent condition.

"In this 3-CD set each disc contains one duo session between the three musicians: trombone-bass, piano-bass and piano-trombone. Recorded over the course of Bishop's last year of residency in Boston and soon after Smith had moved to St. Louis, these recordings capture a glimpse of the city's creative music scene at a particularly active time between 2016-22, when, the three musicians interacted frequently in many settings in the Boston area. The Smith/Bishop disc consists of all improvised music, while the other two feature a mix of free improvisations and original material."-Driff/Balance Point Acoustics


Artist Biographies

"Jeb Bishop was born in Raleigh, North Carolina during the Cuban missile crisis. He began playing the trombone at the age of 10, under the tutelage of Cora Grasser. Other influential teachers during junior high and high school included Jeanne Nelson, Eric Carlson, Richard Fecteau, Greg Cox, and James Cozart.

He majored in classical trombone performance at Northwestern University from 1980-82, studying with Frank Crisafulli. Deciding he did not want to pursue a career as an orchestral musician, he returned to Raleigh in 1982 and took up engineering studies at NC State University. Raleigh's developing underground rock scene attracted him, and from 1982-84 he played bass guitar in rock bands in the Raleigh area.

At the same time, he developed an interest in philosophy, eventually majoring in the subject, and spent 1984-85 studying philosophy at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.

Returing to Raleigh in 1985, he spent the next few years working at menial jobs and playing guitar, bass, cheap keyboards, drums, etc., in rock bands including and/or, the Angels of Epistemology, Egg, and Metal Pitcher.

In 1989 he left Raleigh to pursue graduate studies in philosophy, first at the University of Arizona, then at Loyola University of Chicago (where he was awarded the Crown Fellowship in the Humanities). During 1991-92 he returned to Europe, spending the summer of 1991 studying German at the Goethe-Institut Iserlohn (now closed), and then pursuing independent studies in philosophy at the French-language division of the University of Louvain.

Returning to Chicago in 1992, he completed his M.A. at Loyola in 1993. By this time he had already begun to make connections with improvising musicians in Chicago, having joined the Flying Luttenbachers as bassist (later adding trombone) in late 1992, and playing guitar occasionally in a quartet with Weasel Walter, Ken Vandermark, and Kevin Drumm. Other bands during this period included the Unheard Music Quartet (with Vandermark, Mike Hagedorn on trombone, and Otto Huber on drums) and the Rev Trio (with Walter and saxophonist Joe Vajarsky). Bishop played electric bass in both these bands.

In late 1995, Bishop joined the Vandermark 5 as one of its founding members, and remained with the band through the end of 2004. During this period he also became associated with many other groups, including the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, School Days, Ken Vandermark's Territory Band, and his own Jeb Bishop Trio, and became a very frequent participant in ad hoc and free-improvised concerts in Chicago. Bishop performed in the inaugural concerts of two of the longest-running free-music concert series in Chicago: the Myopic Books weekly concerts (originally at Czar Bar; with Rev Trio) and the Empty Bottle Wednesday night concert series (with a quartet of Terri Kapsalis, Kevin Drumm, and Jim O'Rourke). He curated the monthly Chicago Improvisers Group concerts at the Green Mill from 1999-2002, and co-curated the weekly Eight Million Heroes concert series at Sylvie's in 2005-6.

Bishop has made dozens of recordings with many different groups, has toured North America and Europe many times, and maintains a busy performing schedule."

-Jeb Bishop Website (http://www.jebbishop.com/jebbio.html)
6/17/2023

Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography.

"Pandelis Karayorgis is a Boston based jazz/improvised music pianist, composer and educator.

In the last twenty years mostly led or co-led numerous groups in performances at festivals and clubs in Europe and the United States and Canada. Recordings appear on labels such as Hat Art, HatOLOGY, Clean Feed, Not Two, Leo Records, Nuscope, Boxholder, Okkadisk, Cadence, Accurate, Leo Lab, Ayler and more recently on Driff Records, a new artist-run label co-founded by Pandelis Karayorgis and Jorrit Dijkstra.

Some of the most extensive recording/performing collaborations have been with Nate McBride, Curt Newton, Ken Vandermark, Mat Maneri, Guillermo Gregorio, Jorrit Dijkstra, Luther Gray, Jef Charland, Randy Peterson and Dave Rempis.Pandelis Karayorgis performed and recorded with Joe Maneri, Han Bennink, Mary Oliver, Jeb Bishop, Steve Swell, Frank Rosaly, Jason Roebke, Keefe Jackson, Tony Malaby, Michael Formanek, Forbes Graham, Matt Langley, Jeff Galindo, Taylor Ho Bynum, John Lockwood and Eric Rosenthal.

Also performed with Josh Abrams, Chad Taylor, Jason Adasciewicz, Jacob William, Laurence Cook, Eric Hofbauer, Jeff Parker, Tim Daisy, Jason Stein, Mike Reed, Josh Berman, Charles Waters, James Falzone, Nori Tanaka, Daniel Levin, Kresten Osgood, Jeff Platz and Charlie Kohlase.

Notable projects include The Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet, The Whammies, The Pandelis Karayorgis Trio (whose first trio CD "Heart And Sack" was featured on National Public Radio's program Fresh Air), the mi3, Construction Party, System of 5, the quartet Matchbox, the large group Bathysphere and more recently, the quintet Cutout.

Born in Athens, Greece in 1962, moved to Boston in 1985. Prior to that, studied piano and performed in various jazz groups in Athens while pursuing a degree in Economics. Earned BM and MM degrees in music from Boston's New England Conservatory while studying with Paul Bley, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Dave Holland and Joe Maneri (composition). Studied and performed extensively Thelonious Monk's and Lennie Tristano's music and in 1991 compiled a collection of all of Monk's compositions."

-Pandelis Karayorgis Website (http://karayorgis.com/Pages/bio.html)
6/17/2023

Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography.

"Damon Smith studied double bass with Lisle Ellis and has had lessons with Bertram Turezky, Joëlle Leandré, John Lindberg, Mark Dresser and others. Damon's explorations into the sonic palette of the double bass have resulted in a personal, flexible improvisational language based in the American jazz avant-garde movement and European non-idiomatic free improvisation. Visual art, film and dance heavily influence his music, as evidenced by his CAMH performance of Ben Patterson's Variations for Double Bass, collaborations with director Werner Herzog on soundtracks for Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World, and an early performance with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Damon has collaborated with a wide range of musicians, including: Cecil Taylor, Marshall Allen (of Sun Ra's Arkestra), Henry Kaiser, Roscoe Mitchell, Michael Pisaro, Wadada Leo Smith, Marco Eneidi, Wolfgang Fuchs, Peter Brötzmann and Peter Kowald. After many years in the San Francisco Bay Area, and five great years in Houston, Texas working regularly with Alvin Fielder, Sandy Ewen, David Dove & Chris Cogburn, Damon will move to the Boston area in the fall of 2016. Damon has run Balance Point Acoustics record label since 2001, releasing music focusing on transatlantic collaborations between US and European musicians."

-Balance Point Acoustic Website (https://www.balancepointacoustics.com/damon-smith/)
6/17/2023

Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography.


Track Listing:



CD1



1. Caltrop 04:49

2. Parsnip 05:36

3. Protocol 05:33

4. Photo Op 06:09

5. Blecher 04:51

6. Uni Device 05:46

7. Wageningen 06:15

8. Pestalozzi 07:03

9. School Device 06:59

CD2



1. Pennant 07:17

2. Ravine 05:12

3. Whistles 04:25

4. Lifgatowy 05:11

5. Procession 05:04

6. Entanglement 08:14

7. Extruded 03:26

8. Undertow 06:31

9. Mr. Cook 04:23

10. Weft 05:06

11. Something Stirring Underfoot 01:47

12. Hommage 5:50

CD3



1. Scry 04:39

2. Slack Tide 05:30

3. Roil JB 04:43

4. Ledger 04:43

5. Never Ending 04:49

6. Redarrow 04:55

7. Razorlip 05:45

8. Summer 06:49

9. Ledge 06:16

10. Three 06:00

11. Ice 05:25

12. Roil PK 05:30

Related Categories of Interest:


Used CDs
Improvised Music
Jazz
Free Improvisation
Duo Recordings
Piano & Keyboards
Boston Area Improvisers
Used CD Alphabetic List

Search for other titles on the label:
Driff Records.


Recommended & Related Releases:
Cameron / Smith / Cunningham
Time Without Hours [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Storm Cellar)
Neumann / Smith / Graham / Rosenthal / Fujiwara / Ewen
Quartet:Quartet:Trio [2 CDs]
(Balance Point Acoustics)
Hartsaw, Paul / Damon Smith / Jerome Bryerton
Precipitation of a Decision / The Ride On The 8 Of Infinity [2 CDs]
(Balance Point Acoustics)
Stein, Jason / Damon Smith / Adam Shead
Volumes & Surfaces
(Balance Point Acoustics)
Moses, Ra Kalam Bob / Damon Smith Duo
Purecircle
(Balance Point Acoustics)
Bryerton, Jerome / Damon Smith
There Must be a Reason for Generating Sounds... [CD + BOOKMARK]
(Balance Point Acoustics)
Novak, Rebecca / Danny Kamins / Sandy Ewen / Damon Smith / Jerome Bryerton
Groundwater Recharge
(Balance Point Acoustics)
Fielder, Alvin / David Dove / Jason Jackson / Damon Smith
The Very Cup of Trembling
(Astral Spirits)
Ewen, Sandy / Keith Rowe / Damon Smith + Gooseberry Marmalade
Houston 2012 [2 CDs]
(Balance Point Acoustics)
Ulher, Birgit / Damon Smith / Chris Cogburn
The Eternity-Cult
(Balance Point Acoustics)
Mitchell, Roscoe / Sandy Ewen / Damon Smith / Weasel Walter
A Railroad Spike Forms The Voice
(ugEXPLODE)
Ball, Hugo (Jaap Blonk / Bart van der Putten / Pieter Meurs / Damon Smith)
Six sound Poems 1989 & 2013 [2 CDs]
(Balance Point Acoustics / kontrans)
Feichtmair, Tanja / Damon Smith / Gino Robair
The Shrilling of Frogs
(Balance Point Acoustics)
Morris, Joe / Damon Smith
Gusts Against Particles [VINYL]
(Open Systems Records)
Alexander, Sarah Ruth / Damon Smith
God Made My Soul an Ornament
(Balance Point Acoustics)
Smith, Damon / Peter Kowald / Joelle Leandre / Bertram Turetzky
Bass Duos 2000-2007 [3 CDs + 3 Postcards]
(Balance Point Acoustics)
Gregorio, Guillermo / Damon Smith / Jerome Bryerton
Room of the the Present
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
Schindler, Udo / Damon Smith / Karina Erhard
The Munich Sound Studies Vol 1
(FMR)
Cameron, Lisa / Damon Smith / Alex Cunningham
Dawn Throws its First Knife
(Balance Point Acoustics)
Ewen, Sandy / Damon Smith / Weasel Walter
ST
(ugEXPLODE)
Bishop, Jeb Centrifugal Trio
[CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Astral Spirits)
Fielder, Alvin / Damon Smith
Song For Chico [CASSETTE]
(Balance Point Acoustics)
Smith, Damon
Whatever Is Not Stone Is Light
(Balance Point Acoustics)
Polyorchard (David Menestres / Jeb Bishop)
Ink [2 CDs]
(Out & Gone Records)
Bishop, Jeb / Dan Ruccia
Scratch Slice Jag
(Out & Gone Records)
Rosaly, Frank (w/ Blonk / Boye / Farha / Pfiffner / Bishop / Broste / McBride / Diaz / Fernandez / Guerra / Rodriguez)
Todos de Pie!
(Kontrans)



The Squid's Ear Magazine

The Squid's Ear Magazine

© 2002-, Squidco LLC