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Reviews

The Guardian – Review by John Lewis
​"unsettling, dissonant and quite spiritually intense music"
ukvibe – Review: 4/5 – DAVE WILSON QUINTET + STRING QUARTET ‘EPHEMERAL’ 2X180G LP (THELONIOUS)
​"[On 'A Hundred Glowing Clouds'] The bass clarinet gets another outing, its rich and sonorous tone giving a fortified density [to] the guitar’s layered textures. The overall impression is of a deliciously woozy chamber music."
Relix – Dave Wilson: "Ephemeral" 
​"Wilson blends his hometown’s urban verve with his adopted island’s natural beauty" . . . "​spiritedly grooving"
Jazziz – ​10 Albums You Need to Know: December 2023 – Laufey, Blue Note, Sun Ra & More: The Week In Jazz
​"The record finds him crafting intricate textures and multi-layered grooves, showcasing his shapeshifting connection to his instrument of choice with an idiosyncratic fusion of improvisatory melodies and dynamic rhythmic impulses."
Qobuz / Jason Ferguson - Medium – ​Dave Wilson — Ephemeral 
​"what this album offers is a sound that is quite substantial, with dreamy, complex numbers illuminated by the confident playing of a large group" . . . "as daring as it is dreamy."
New Zealand Listener / Elsewhere – Reviews: Sampha is restrained and Dave Wilson is challenging in new albums [print version here]
​"With a string quartet and quintet, Wellington saxophonist Wilson brings out a provocative, enjoyably challenging and thoroughly engrossing collection of charted and improvised pieces" . . . "well worth discovering."
New Zealand Music Commission – ​Dave Wilson Collaborates With Local Talents to Bring New Album 'Ephemeral' 
​"​With multi-layered grooves and intricate textures, Wilson creates musical worlds that foreground the wide-ranging musicalities of his collaborators and amplify the many dimensions of his playing"

Interviews

Fifteen Questions (part 1) – Dave Wilson about Musical Relationships and Forgiveness through Music 
​"Making music isn’t a metaphor for relationships. It actually is relationships in action."
Fifteen Questions (part 2) – Dave Wilson about Improvisation
​"The myth of “individual genius” disappears in music improvised in collectivity."
Radio One Dunedin ​– INTERVIEW: Dave Wilson on new album 'Ephemeral' - Alex Wolken 

RadioActive FM – "Ephemeral": Dave Wilson on Breakfast

SOUNZ (Centre for New Zealand Music) – Interview: Composer Corner – Dave Wilson
Wellington Regional News – Improvisation Amplified 
​"My hope is that the music and the stories behind it can connect listeners to others in their life in ways that are full of understanding and love."

Radio New Zealand – Dave Wilson: Ephemeral – Featured Album of the Week on Inside Out with Nick Tipping

13th Floor – Dave Wilson Performs "For Olivia" at The 13th Floor: Singles Session – plus interview

Radio New Zealand – Music as a form of interspecies interaction – Interview on "speak to me of yesterday and tomorrow (elusive as the dead)" from "Ephemeral" album on Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan

Radio New Zealand: Interview about Gateways to Understanding Music on Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan

Interview at Victoria University of Wellington, discussing Gateways to Understanding Music​

Radio Free Europe - The Avant-Garde Pathways of Wilson and Valitutto at the Macedonian Philharmonic
OKNO.mk - Deeper Magic - Review of SLANT ​performance at Macedonian Philharmonic
Nezavisen [Independent] - ​Toni Kitanovski brings together musicians from the USA, Peru, and the Balkans on stage

Radio New Zealand: Interview discussing some inspiring music encountered over the years, sharing original music from Nicole Mitchell, Toni Kitanovski, Steve Coleman, Holophonor, and Callum Allardice , October 2017.

Bird is the Worm - ​The Round Up: Rooted in place, the city grew around us
Radio Free Europe - CSPS Ensemble with ​"On the Face Place" promoted at Stanica 26
Jazz Beyond Jazz - Jazz Composers @ the Buffalo Philharmonic Orch – JazzApril week 4 
Radio Free Europe - Dave Wilson – CSPS Jazz Ensemble is a unique project

Interview with UCLA Charles Mingus Ensemble, directed by Dr. James Newton. During a performance and education tour of Macedonia and Kosovo I organized in 2014, the radio station at Goce Delčev University in Štip, Macedonia recorded a video of an interview with Dr. Newton and pianist Kiefer Shackelford (I provided translation).

​Here is the full performance at Goce Delčev University:
​UCLA Charles Mingus Ensemble – Dr. James Newton, Director
Jonah Levine, trombone
Masai Marcelin, trombone
Forrest Mitchell, drums
Zach Ramacier, trumpet
Kiefer Shackelford, piano
Erik Shiboski, bass
Dave Wilson, tenor saxophone
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