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The Dan DeChellis Trio: Strength And Anger
by Dan Bilawsky
On Strength And Anger, Pianist Dan DeChellis' continues his original explorations within the trio format, building on his work on such albums as My Age Of Anxiety (Self Produced, 2012), The Getback (Self Produced, 2009), Organic Material (Self Produced, 2008), and Climbing (Self Produced, 2006). The seventeen songs presented herein--most in the three-to-five minute range--are autobiographical in nature. DeChellis references the highs and lows in his life, looking back fondly on twenty years of marriage ("20 Year ...
read moreTake Five with Dan DeChellis
by Dan DeChellis
Meet Dan DeChellis:Dan DeChellis' music consists of melody, emotion, energy, and spontaneous adventure. Born on classic rock, schooled in classical music, matured on jazz, and aged with ambient music, DeChellis is a fan of all music and styles. He has released over eight albums of purely improvised music on his own label, Sachimay Records. He is also a member of the Hassay/DeChellis/Nakatani Trio, which has released two records on the German label, Konnex Records. DeChellis is also a ...
read moreDan DeChellis Trio: My Age of Anxiety
by Karl Ackermann
If anything in jazz approaches the status of a commodity, it would be the piano trio. The inevitable comparisons run the gamut from Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett to Cecil Taylor and, more often than not, those benchmarks are either unattainable or unsustainable. A more accessible measure may be in the ability to differentiate one group's unique contribution from the plethora of similarly structured groups. The Dan DeChellis Trio meets that distinction with its debut, My Age of Anxiety--but here, ...
read moreDan DeChellis Trio: Organic Material
by Hrayr Attarian
Good ideas need to be expanded upon rather than repeated, since even the best of them may lose their appeal with multiple restatements. Dan DeChellis' Organic Matter is full of interesting musical concepts that are not really explored to their fullest; rather, they are repeated with each track multiple times, creating a pleasant, hypnotic effect that, in the end, remains heavy on form and light on substance.
The exception is the the lengthy You're So Perceptive," which starts off sounding ...
read moreDan DeChellis: Chamber Music
by AAJ Staff
Free jazz (and I mean the really free stuff) can approach pure improvisation. But the more abstract it gets, the more it can also approximate noise. The same can also be said for a lot of the modern classical" that took off after John Cage. So sometimes it's hard to say exactly what's going on in this kind of music (take Derek Bailey as an occasional example). Chamber Music, officially composed by Dan DeChellis but highly improvisational in its approach, ...
read moreDan Dechellis Trio and the Paul Thiessen Band at Puck in Doylestown Pa on November 29, 2007
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All About Jazz
Primary Instrument
Piano
Willing to teach
Intermediate to advanced
Credentials/Background
BM in Music (piano performance) MM in Music (piano performance) Private lessons offered in piano, theory, composition Currently on faculty at Moravian College, Bethlehem
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A Distant Memory
From: Moving MountainsBy Dan DeChellis
Skirmish
From: Strength And AngerBy Dan DeChellis
Thinking Too Much
From: Strength And AngerBy Dan DeChellis
24 Hour Intervals
From: Strength And AngerBy Dan DeChellis
Path
From: Organic MaterialBy Dan DeChellis