Hayes Greenfield - Gravity Unplugged (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. En Route to Nardis
02. Monk's Dream
03. Shorty, Gravity and Beyond
04. My Shining Hour
05. Blooze Snooze
06. While Bud and / Chi Chi’s / Honeysuckle Rose / Scrappled with the Apple
07. Finding Epistrophy

Hayes Greenfield’s Gravity Unplugged is an unpredictable and adventurous electro-acoustic journey through standard jazz repertoire and free jazz improvisation. Hayes on alto saxophone and eBects leads a highly versatile chordless trio, featuring Ariel Della Portilla on upright bass and either Chuck Palmer or Todd Turkisher on drums, through shifting improvisations, well known tunes and musical exchanges that titillates, challenges and delight the ears.

As an electro-acoustic musician, Hayes augments his alto playing and sound by using an extensive eBects pedal rig and looper. This set up enables him to create an infinite range of sounds and textures to draw from, all at his fingertips. Blended in real time with his spirited, tender and full-bodied acoustic alto sound that is rooted in the tradition, the result is fresh, robust and organically unfettered. Because the textures of sounds and their dynamic ranges generated by eBects pedals can illicit emotional responses, Hayes’s sounds help to determine and inspire the direction, flow and close interplay that happens between the musicians.

Hayes’s open-minded goal and intention for playing free and incorporating jazz standards in the electro-acoustic setting set the direction for this band and recording. Della Portilla, Palmer and Turkisher provide the perfect support, whether playing freely or in a traditional vein. Each musician is stellar and highly accomplished whose artistic sensitivities, experience and versatility enable them to draw from the expansive history of jazz and more.

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