Mary Halvorson (guitar)
John Hebert (bass)
Ches Smith (drums)
Sounds Like
"More than an auspicious debut, (Dragon's Head) is among this year’s standout jazz albums and one of the more original recent statements by any jazz guitarist..."
-Nate Chinen, The New York Times, November 2008 **************************************************
"Watch how bassist John Hebert reads her mind."
-The Village Voice, November 2008
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"'Dragon’s Head' (Firehouse 12), the first record by the Mary Halvorson trio, is an itchy but appealing artifact of new jazz, full of tension, excitement and awkward pleasure, and very much of its moment."
-Ben Ratliff, The New York Times, November 2008
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"Dragon’s Head is (Halvorson's) first recording as a leader, and it’s an auspicious debut. She possesses impressive technique, a broad, distinctive instrumental vocabulary and she is a canny caster of players and a strong writer."
-Bill Meyer, Downbeat Magazine, December 2008
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"Dissonant arpeggios melding into pounding odd-meter repetitive grooves, spidery textures becoming cracked melodies, and jazzy vamps fragmenting into vicious free-form interactions, with Halvorson wrenching blistering lines and rude sounds from her guitar.”
-Elliott Sharp, Guitar Player Magazine, November 2007
Our debut record is now out on Firehouse 12 Records!!!
We will be performing live on WFMU Wednesday Dec 10th @ 11pm on Scott McDowell's show The Long Rally. Tune in to 90.1 FM or you can stream online at www.wfmu.org.
We will also be performing live on John Schaefer's Soundcheck, Monday Dec 22nd @ 2pm. Tune in at 93.9 FM or stream online at www.wnyc.org.
Check out youtube videos of our CD release show, live, courtesy of Jeremy Arambulo: performing Old Nine Two Six Four Two Dies (www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYHZo3Z-Mag), and performing Dragon's Head (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5RsqrI-MwQ).
Hey you sound great! Do you have a card? I have a space we can totally play at! What's your schedule like next week? We should totally get together and play. How'd I sound? You sound great! I mean, wow! How'd I sound? You sound awesome. We should play sometime! Really! Really? Wow. How'd you sound great I sound!?
trio, quintet, soon a septet and after The Mary Halvorson Orchestra ;) i met a friend and he wants to organise concerts for jazz bands in a nice loft in brussels. i was thinking of you for the next time. see ya. Flo viva la playa http://www.myspace.com/xiaonaka
hello - thanks for the add - love your music - jsut discovered you recently - and diff permutations... v inventive and creative music... hope you play near me soon....
the fate of our band depends on plutos next entrance into my 10th house - so watch it there ;-) where is saturn? opposing my venus while it squares uranus which is ramming my moon up the ass
hello Mary and crew..hey i got the Dragon's Head (purchased download from Firehouse12)...a great album. i knew it would be. happy 2009...it'd be frickin great to have you come back to FL to play music sometime. i'm holding my breath. no i'm not.
