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Human Feel is a jazz quartet that consists of clarinet/tenor saxophone player Chris Speed, bass clarinet/alto saxophone player Andrew D'Angelo, guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, and drummer Jim Black. The group combines elements of free jazz, chamber music, and alternative rock and features extensive improvisation in their performances. Gary W. Kennedy noted their "tight-knit interaction and exploratory style."

Human Feel was formed in 1987 when Speed, D'Angelo, and Black were studying music in Boston. Rosenwinkel joined in 1990. In the early '90s, the members relocated to New York City.


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Human Feel: Speak To It

Read "Human Feel: Speak To It" reviewed by Mark Werlin


What is chamber jazz? The emergence of chamber jazz as a genre can be traced to the innovative sextet sides recorded in the mid-1930s by bandleader John Kirby, and to the trio and small-ensemble post-war recordings of Benny Goodman. By the late 1940s, the term 'chamber jazz' was widely used in industry publications such as Billboard magazine, academic journals, and newspaper and magazine reviews of performances by small groups. A distinction was drawn between chamber jazz and big-band ...

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Human Feel: Gold

Read "Gold" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The band's appellation might be Human Feel, but after over 30 years of recording and performing together, maybe the quartet of saxophonists Andrew D'Angelo and Chris Speed, guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and drummer Jim Black should change their name to 'Super Hero Feel.' Just like a comic book franchise, when this quartet reconvenes, there is going to be some turbulence before triumph. The quartet's coming together this time is after 12 years without releasing a full-length album. The wait was certainly ...

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Human Feel alla Sala Vanni di Firenze

Read "Human Feel alla Sala Vanni di Firenze" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Human Feel Musicus Concentus -A Jazz Supreme Sala Vanni Firenze 24.11.2017 Si chiude con il botto la prima stagione di A Jazz Supreme, presso la Sala Vanni di Firenze, a cura del Musicus Concentus: sul palco Human Feel, formazione nata esattamente trent'anni fa per iniziativa di quattro giovanissimi musicisti di belle speranze, poi diventati tra i maggiori esponenti del jazz internazionale. Che il gruppo sia di gran classe lo si capisce subito ...

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Human Feel: Galore

Read "Galore" reviewed by Troy Collins


Reunion records, now de rigueur in the rock and pop world, are rarer in the jazz realm. That fact makes Galore, the first album in a decade from the formerly defunct Human Feel, all the more important.

Human Feel was founded in Boston in 1987 by drummer Jim Black and saxophonists Andrew D'Angelo and Chris Speed. Guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel joined in 1990 before the group headed to New York. By 1996, the band was absorbed into the Downtown ...

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Songlines To Release Digital Only Re-Master Of Human Feel's 'Speak To It' On September 17

Songlines To Release Digital Only Re-Master Of Human Feel's 'Speak To It' On September 17

Source: GoMedia PR

Human Feel—Andrew D’Angelo, alto saxophone, bass clarinet; Chris Speed, tenor sax, clarinet; Kurt Rosenwinkel, guitar and Jim Black, drums—was one of New York's most distinctive downtown bands of the mid-'90s, when Songlines was doing a lot of recording in New York. (Jim Black had already been on Dave Douglas’s Tiny Bell Trio, Ellery Eskelin’s Jazz Trash and Ben Monder’s Flux.) Speak to It, their fourth CD, was released in 1996 to critical acclaim, but somehow the band subsequently lost momentum, ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Gold

Intakt Records
2019

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Galore

Skirl Records
2007

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Speak To It

Songlines Recordings
1996

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Welcome To Malpesta

Skirl Records
1994

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Scatter

Skirl Records
1991

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Human Use

Skirl Records
1989

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From: Galore
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