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Drew Gress
Bassist/composer Drew Gress performs extensively with artists on the cutting edge of contemporary improvised music. His latest project as a leader, 7 BLACK BUTTERFLIES (Premonition Records), features 9 of Drew¹s newest original compositions and will be released in MAY 2005. This is the follow up to 2001's SPIN & DRIFT, which received widespread critical acclaim and also featured Drew's pedal-steel guitar playing. He also leads the quartet Jagged Sky; their debut recording, HEYDAY(Soul Note) was released in 1998 and is now considered somewhat of an underground classic. Previously, he was a founding member of the cooperative quartet Joint Venture, producing three albums in the early 1990s for Enja: Joint Venture, Ways, and Mirrors.
When Drew is not leading his own ensembles, he can be heard within those of Ralph Alessi, Tim Berne, Don Byron, Uri Caine, Bill Carrothers, Ravi Coltrane, Marc Copland, Fred Hersch, John Hollenbeck, Andy Laster, Tony Malaby, Mat Maneri, Simon Nabatov, Ben Perowsky, and Tim Ziesmer.
(In a previous musical life, he grounded the performances of Buddy Hackett, Phyllis Diller, Zoot Sims, Cab Calloway, and yes...Pia Zadora).
Drew has toured North, South, and Central America, Europe, and Asia, and has served as Artist-in-Residence at St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia and at the University of Colorado-Boulder. The Gaurdian selected a concert given by his Spin & Drift quartet as London's Best Jazz Concert for 2002, and in the same year he received a SESAC Composer's Award; this in addition to previous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Meet the Composer
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- The Sky Inside by Vincenzo Roggero
- The Sky Inside by AAJ Italy Staff
Extended Analysis
Album Reviews
- Le sue ali by AAJ Italy Staff
- The Irrational Numbers by AAJ Italy Staff
Multiple Reviews
Album Reviews
- The Irrational Numbers by Mark F. Turner
- The Irrational Numbers by John Kelman
- For by AAJ Italy Staff
- 7 Black Butterflies by AAJ Italy Staff
- 7 Black Butterflies by Rex Butters
Interviews
Album Reviews
- 7 Black Butterflies by John Kelman
- 7 Black Butterflies by Sean Patrick Fitzell
- 7 Black Butterflies by AAJ Staff
- 7 Black Butterflies by Mark F. Turner
- Spin and Drift by Glenn Astarita
- Spin & Drift by Jim Santella
- Spin & Drift by Jim Santella
- Heyday by Glenn Astarita
March 14, 2017
Pianist/Composer Randy Ingram Set To Release His Most Personal &...
December 07, 2012
Michael McNeill With Drew Gress & Phil Haynes Tonight In Brooklyn
September 25, 2012
Angles Of Repose, Featuring: Mat Maneri, Drew Gress, Lucian Ban, Randy...
December 11, 2008
Jane Ira Bloom, Fred Hersch, Drew Gress at Philoctetes Center on...
March 03, 2008
Drew Gress Featured on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross and in the NY...
February 28, 2008
Assist/Composer Drew Gress on Tour in Support + Celebration of the...
December 19, 2007
Premonition Records Releases New Album from Bassist/Composer Drew Gress
June 08, 2005
Drew Gress and 7 Black Butterflies at The Jazz Gallery - Friday, June 10
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