Reviews
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."
"[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"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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"
"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."
"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."
"The myth of “individual genius” disappears in music improvised in collectivity."
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."
"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
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
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
Jonah Levine, trombone
Masai Marcelin, trombone
Forrest Mitchell, drums
Zach Ramacier, trumpet
Kiefer Shackelford, piano
Erik Shiboski, bass
Dave Wilson, tenor saxophone