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Dave Storrs

In 1969 Dave Storrs came up from a rehearsal in the basement to watch man walk on the moon. He participated in, and absorbed, the music of the time—Hendrix, Coltrane, The Beatles, Miles Davis, Mingus and James Brown. Between music, some school, some hitchhiking, and playing all kinds of styles in all kinds of places, an approach emerged.

Seeing Sun Ra in 1979 inspired Storrs in new directions and in the '80s he began leading and composing for various ensembles—Freezer Burn, Multnomah Rhythm Ensemble and The Tone Sharks—as well as doing film and video scores. Storrs first albums, Ross Island (1984) and Jumper Cables (1987), received national air play and critical acclaim. Of Jumper Cables Cadence magazine said, "Storrs' band offer convincing evidence that virtuoso jazz experimentation is taking place on the West Coast."

In 1995 Storrs started Louie Records and continues his restless, experimental ways. He has over a dozen recordings out under his name.

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Album Review

Sila Shaman: They Come Out At Night

Read "They Come Out At Night" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Drummer Dave Storrs' Sound Shack—a garage beside his Corvallis, Oregon house, converted into a recording studio—has been open for business for more than two decades. Recordings go down when the mood strikes. The mood strikes often. There must be thousands of hours of unreleased stuff stocked away. So pianist Sila Shaman--who has participated productively in Sound Shack activities, most notably on the terrific Brief West Coast Tour (Louie Records, 2020)—decided to do something about the unreleased aspect of some of ...

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Dave Storrs' Sound Shack: Part 1

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At one time it was a place to park a car. A detached garage in Corvallis, Oregon, surrounded by trees. Percussionist Dave Storrs transformed it into a recording studio around about 1992. And Louie Records was born. If Louie Records can be said to have enjoyed a heyday as a proper record company (whatever that might mean), it would have been the early 2000s, with releases like Storrs' Waxing The Slide (2002), Techno Lodge's Party With Techno (2003), ...

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Klobas/Storrs/Hundemer: An Hour of Now

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When a jazz fan hears “trio outing," he might think bass and drums teamed up with a lead instrument: a piano, guitar or sax. But An Hour of Now, the third outing by Mike Klobas, Dave Storrs, and Page Hundemer, continues in a drums/drums/bass format. Two drummers and a bassist? A hard sell, isn't it? Who doesn't, in perusing the jazz CD reviews, check out the disc's instrumentation for an idea of the sounds to be encountered? But ...

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Dave Storrs: Waxing the Slide

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If Dave Storrs had chosen writing instead of music as his art, Waxing the Slide would take the form of an offbeat novel, the story told from the shifting perspectives of a series of first person narrators. Something along the lines of Louise Erdrich's The Beet Queen or Love Medicine, disparate perpsectives held together by the author's (music-maker's) bold and clearly focused vision.Storrs is the brains and beat behind Louie Records, out of Corvallis, Oregon. He has been ...

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Klobas, Storrs, Hundemer: In the Room

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'The Room' is percussionist Dave Storrs'studio/garage, a no-frills recording mecca in, of all places, Corvallis, Oregon; where Storrs' and various musical units get together to create spontaneous sounds for the CDs of Louie Records. And since it's Dave's studio, and there is no middleman corporate guy trying to reign things in, you get the undiluted stuff.That's what In the Room is: pure, unfettered musical creation: Dave Storrs and Mike Klobas on the drum sets, Page Hundemer on electric ...

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Dave Storrs: Another Thing

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What makes a percussion album so unique is its array of indefinite pitches and the variety of ways in which they’re used. Dave Storrs uses hand drums, gongs, marimba, tiny bells, hand chimes, tom toms, a snare drum, shakers, and more. Bringing the listener closer to Nature, his song creations leave impressions of wild antelope pitter-patter, raindrops on rooftops, wind-blown reeds, thumps on a hollow log, and native dance. The rhythms of Nature, after all, provide grist for the mill ...

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Dave Storrs: Another Thing

Read "Another Thing" reviewed by AAJ Staff


The concept of the jazz drum solo emerged out of band arrangements where drummers who normally kept time in the background could leap out front for a brief moment in the sun. It has matured since then, and the full range of colors available to the modern percussionist can make a drum solo much more than a showy display of virtuosity. Dave Storrs emerges on his solo percussion disc Another Thing as a drummer of many talents: first and foremost, ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Brief West Coast Tour

Louie Records
2020

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First Encounters

Louie Records
2020

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First Time Again

Wave Eleven
2019

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An Hour of Now

Louie Records
2003

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Another Thing

Louie Records
2002

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