Home » Jazz Musicians » Dan Montgomery

Dan Montgomery

Sign in / sign up and request update access to the Dan Montgomery page.


Tags

41
Album Review

Ben Morris: Pocket Guides

Read "Pocket Guides" reviewed by Jack Bowers


On Pocket Guides, his debut recording as foreman, Denver-based pianist Ben Morris leads a one-dozen strong quasi-big band with rather unusual instrumentation--two horns, two woodwinds, two violins, mandolin, cello, melodica and rhythm--through eight of his engaging compositions, most of which touch on his Norwegian heritage. To his credit, Morris makes splendid use of every tool in his kit, writing with each of them in mind and making sure that everyone in the ensemble has an essential role to play. His ...

9
Album Review

Alex Heffron: Looking Out

Read "Looking Out" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Based in Denver, Colorado, Alex Heffron is an imaginative guitarist and intelligent composer. His debut, the engaging Looking Out, demonstrates these talents amply. On it, Heffron leads a sextet consisting of like-minded musicians through an intriguing set of eight of his originals with elegant confidence and simmering passion. The title track opens the album with a charmingly effervescent mood. Over infectious rhythmic vamps, the frontline play the main theme with vibrant and muscular refrains. Heffron takes center stage ...

8
Album Review

Dan Montgomery: Storyteller

Read "Storyteller" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Young bassist Dan Montgomery makes a splashy entrance onto the landscape of recorded jazz with Storyteller, a brash, audacious offering of classic modern jazz featuring nine original compositions performed by a core quintet of fellow classmates from the University of Miami's (UM) Frost School of Music. A bassist/vocalist and educator from Rochester, NY, Montgomery is currently a professor of jazz bass at the Community Arts Program in Miami, FL, was a finalist for the Thelonious Monk Institute; a semi-finalist for ...

Read more articles

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Pocket Guides

OA2 Records
2022

buy

Looking Out

Self Produced
2021

buy

Chronicle

Self Produced
2020

buy

Storyteller

Self Produced
2017

buy

Ymir's Bones

From: Pocket Guides
By Dan Montgomery

Baths

From: Chronicle
By Dan Montgomery

Beyond Convergence

From: Chronicle
By Dan Montgomery

Get more of a good thing!

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