Home » Jazz Musicians » William Gagliardi

William Gagliardi

Sign in / sign up and request update access to the William Gagliardi page.


Tags

160
Album Review

William Gagliardi Quintet: Memories of Tomorrow

Read "Memories of Tomorrow" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes


Saxophonist William Gagliardi writes songs with a free jazz posture and a hard bop conscience, a duality which sometimes leads to a kind of psychic split at the middle of a tune. There are various examples of this on Gagliardi's quintet release Memories of Tomorrow. The discourse and tonality between Gagliardi's tenor and John Carlson's trumpet on “Coup d'etat follies recalls Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry. Ken Wessel's almost subliminal guitar is the wheel's axle and Lou Grassi's relentless drumming ...

139
Album Review

William Gagliardi 4tet: Music is the Meditation

Read "Music is the Meditation" reviewed by Derek Taylor


CIMP artists are notorious for coming up with some of the most eclectic and esoteric composition names in creative improvised music. William Gagliardi shoots for a new standard on his first entry as a leader for the label turning with a clutch of titles that exude equal parts idiosyncrasy and mystery. As it turns out the saxophonist’s personal history is as colorful and diverse as his appellative sense. Making stops in locales as diverse as Puerto Rico, Norway and India ...

Read more articles

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Younger Dryas

CIMP Records
2007

buy

Memories of Tomorrow

CIMP Records
2006

buy

Music is the...

CIMP Records
2002

buy

Get more of a good thing!

Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories, our special offers, and upcoming jazz events near you.