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Rob Price

Rob Price is from Massachusetts. He's been encouraged by his family to study music one way or another, formally or informally, his whole life. Before picking up the guitar in 1991 (one year after he moved to New York City), he played violin, viola and piano. In NYC he started playing in various free improv groups and in the avant rock band Dim Sum Clip Job, which released an album, Harmolodic Jeopardy, on John Zorn's Avant label. He began his own label, Gutbrain Records, in 2000.

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Album Review

Rob Price Quartet: I Really Do Not See The Signal

Read "I Really Do Not See The Signal" reviewed by Michael Caratti


I Really Do Not See The Signal is the second Rob Price Quartet record, following At Sunset (Gutbrain, 2004), which featured Ellery Eskelin, Trevor Dunn and Joey Baron. This recording, with Jim Black replacing Baron on drums, is both more aggressive and adventurous in its approach.

Each piece on the album was written specifically for these musicians, who bring intensity and ingenuity to the recording. Price's understated and tasteful guitar work provides his band the space to explore all textural ...

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Album Review

Rob Price: At Sunset

Read "At Sunset" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner


Jazz is no stranger to eclecticism. Musicians have been bending, breaking, reshaping, and reincorporating since the very beginning of jazz history. In fact, departing from jazz tradition might as well be the definition of jazz. If that is indeed the case, guitarist Rob Price has, with his current release, At Sunset , marked himself as a classical jazz composer and player. Combining everything from free improvisation to country, blues, and California surf music, Price has made a ...

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John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet & Rob Price's Group at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia

John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet & Rob Price's Group at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia

Source: All About Jazz

Ars Nova Workshop presents:

Thursday, February 3 | 8pm John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet with John Hollenbeck, drums, percussion Chris Speed, clarinet Ted Reichman, accordian Matt Moran, vibraphone Drew Gress, double-bass

The Claudia Quintet's newest release, I, Claudia (Cuneiform Records) demonstrates that “innovative jazz...can be delicate, witty, ethereal and radiantly lyric" [Chicago Tribune]. Their music is highly seductive, ripe with compelling, propulsive grooves, dynamic sensitivity ...

About the CD I Really Do Not See the Signal, Cadence Magazine's reviewer Jason Bivins wrote:

"I'd heard good things about Price's previous work but this disc is my first encounter with his music. He's not the most ostentatious player, which tends to serve his music well. It also gives plenty of room to his high energy band, for Eskelin's always-inventive expressions and the bustling vigor of Dunn and Black, both supple and muscular. Price, to put it somewhat simply, rocks out quite a bit, with a heavy use of distortion and a predilection for walls of sound and repeating licks. He's got more in his bag, though, and he's also a canny enough player for this not to overwhelm the music—indeed, he uses the distorted tones resourcefully to generate lots of texture ("Dashiell Hammett & Barbara Pym") and some nice fractured rhythms ("Girasol" and the bouncing "Modern Mongoose")

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Submarine Pictures

Gutbrain Records
2008

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I Really Do Not See...

Gutbrain Records
2007

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At Sunset

Gutbrain Records
2004

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Night Vision

From: At Sunset
By Rob Price

Girasol

From: I Really Do Not See The Signal
By Rob Price

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