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Chris van Voorst van Beest
Chris van Voorst van Beest is a bassist and composer who grew up in Maine and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Hailed as "a double bassist with an exceptional ability to improvise," (Erminio Garotta - Sound & Vision) Chris has performed and/or recorded with artists as diverse as Frank Kimbrough, Robert Glasper, Gabriel Kahane, and George Garzone. Sought after in a variety of musical settings, Chris is a member of a number of original music projects including The Danny Fox Trio and Garage Ellington, plays for immersive theater (Sleep No More), and collaborates with multi-media artists, most recently with choreographer Kelly Ashton Todd with whom he wrote and performed incidental music for the 45 minute dance piece 'Nest'.
Chris also writes contemporary classical music, most recently finishing his first work for orchestra 'Short Story'. The founder of his own chamber ensemble, Chris's latest concert, 'Miniatures and Improvisations', features a broad program of short pieces for trio, each piece immediately followed by an improvised response, exploring the dialogue between improvisation and composition. Chris was awarded a Dutch grant for composition in 2010 to compose music for the children's book 'The Lamplighter' and has been nominated three times for the Charles Ives Arts and Letters award
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Danny Fox Trio: Time Took Care of It
by Neil Duggan
Brooklyn-based pianist and composer Danny Fox has an eye-catching background. He has studied with John Kamitsuka, Fred Hersch, Ethan Iverson and Garry Dial, and performed with artists as varied as Bruce Springsteen, Cassandra Wilson and Emmylou Harris. Since 2008, he has led the Danny Fox Trio with Time Took Care of It being their fourth album. The time the trio have spent working together is evident from their cohesive interplay in taking the classic piano trio format in challenging new ...
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by Jerome Wilson
It's no surprise that The Great Nostalgistby pianist Danny Fox and his trio has been released on Hot Cup, the label run by Mostly Other People Do The Killing's Moppa Elliott. It has the same quirky, off the beaten track quality as MOPDTK's recent piano trio CD, Paint, but in a drier, less madcap vein with a lot of angular melodies and references to other musical genres. The compositions, all Fox originals arranged by the trio, go through ...
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by Dan Bilawsky
A group like the Danny Fox Trio and an album like The Great Nostalgist both serve as strong reminders that there's no shortcut for building empathy and there's no technological advancement in the world that can substitute for big ears, strong reflexes, and their attendant responses. Togetherness is truly a time-honed ideal, and music benefits not from what captures and/or manipulates it, but from whence it comes. Rather than follow modern-day recording conventions for this one, Fox ...
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by Maurizio Zerbo
Figura emergente del piano jazz statunitense, Danny Fox si muove con convincente originalità all'interno di schemi ampiamente praticati nelle musiche improvvisate contemporanee. Il suo trio si destreggia con grande professionalità, evidenziando un interplay ricco di sottigliezze. Lo si evince sia negli spunti di particolare taglio ritmico che nelle raffinate modulazioni solistiche. La lucida visione compositiva del leader ben si adatta alla logica del trio, con i suoi giochi ad incastro ritmico-armonici. La smagliante tecnica di Fox ...
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by Dave Wayne
So many jazz piano trios, so little time! With Wide Eyed, the Danny Fox Trio proves very definitively that they are worthy of your attention. Fox' wickedly humorous, tightly-conceived, multi- stylistic compositions and his trio's remarkably sensitive interplay are completely attention-grabbing. One listen was enough to make me a believer. Like a lot of the more interesting piano trios working today, these guys are youngsters. Fox, a New York City native and Harvard grad, formed the trio in 2008. A ...
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by Dan McClenaghan
The Danny Fox Trio is a working band, which is something of a rarity these days. But for building a rapport and depth of communication, there isn't a substitute for touring together and working out the musical problems and over an extended period of time. This New York City-based piano trio that debuted with The One Constant (Songlines, 2011) now offers a follow-up, Wide Eyed. The band was formed in 2008, and seems serious about reshaping the piano ...
read moreDanny Fox Trio Celebrates Fourth Album Time Took Care Of It Featuring Pianist Fox, Bassist Chris Van Voorst Van Beest, And Drummer Max Goldman. Out Today!
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Album Release Concert April 7th at Brooklyn’s The Owl. Time Took Care of It: A Cookbook Companion Featuring Recipe Pairings for Each Track. Stream Tracks at Soundcloud | Read + Download Cookbook Revered for “changing the sound and expectation of a jazz piano trio (John Schaefer, WNYC’s New Sounds),” the Danny Fox Trio releases its fourth album Time Took Care of It. Since its critically acclaimed 2011 debut, The One Constant (Songlines), the group has continued to push the boundaries ...
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Here He Comes
From: Time Took Care of ItBy Chris van Voorst van Beest
Adult Joe
From: The Great NostalgistBy Chris van Voorst van Beest
