Gravity Unplugged

SSC1779 2025-03-14

Track List

En Route to Nardis - 11:26
Monk's Dream - 5:01
Shorty, Gravity and Beyond - 6:18
My Shining Hour - 9:31
Blooze Snooze - 3:35
While Bud and / Chi Chi’s / Honeysuckle Rose / Scrappled with the Apple - 14:09
Finding Epistrophy - 13:41

Musicians

Hayes Greenfield - alto saxophone, efx pedals
Ariel De La Portilla - acoustic bass
Todd Turkisher - drums
Chuck Palmer - drums

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 effects leads a highly versatile trio, featuring Ariel De La 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 effects 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 effects 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. De La 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.