Sunday, January 7, 2024

Devin Gray - Sunday Interview

Photo (c) Cristina Marx / Photomusix

  1. What is your greatest joy in improvised music?

    Knowing that it will be something new every single time.

  2. What quality do you most admire in the musicians you perform with?

    The amount of sincerity going into making music.

  3. Which historical musician/composer do you admire the most?

    Henry Threadgill
     
  4. If you could resurrect a musician to perform with, who would it be?

    Peter Brötzmann

  5. What would you still like to achieve musically in your life?

    More presence of my musical choices.

  6. Are you interested in popular music and - if yes - what music/artist do you particularly like

    Solange Knowles

  7. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

    More focus

  8. Which of your albums are you most proud of?

    Relative Resonance (2015 Skirl Records)

  9. Once an album of yours is released, do you still listen to it? And how often?

    I don’t actively listen to it, unless I’d need to restudy either a compositional approach, or an improvisational passage.

  10. Which album (from any musician) have you listened to the most in your life?

    Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard (again)
     
  11. What are you listening to at the moment?

    A playlist full of only 2023 releases, its hard to keep up with how much great music is out there!

  12. What artist outside music inspires you?

    Salvador Dali, Werner Herzog, William S Burroughs


Recordings from Devin Gray reviewed on the Free Jazz Blog:

  • Solo Percussion
  • Devin Gray - Most Definitely (Rataplan, 2023)
  • Secret People - Secret People (Out of Your Head Records, 2022)
  • Devin Gray - Melt all the Guns / Cloud Sound Trio / Universal Dwellings
  • Percussion duos
  • Solos from Relative Pitch (2/2)
  • Devin Gray - Socialytics (Rataplan Records, 2020) ****
  • Interview with Devin Gray Live - Friday, May 1st
  • GPS Trio - Blast Beat Blues (Rataplan, 2019) ****
  • Free Jazz Blog's 2018 Top 10 Lists
  • Adam Hopkins - Crickets (Out of Your Head Records, 2018) ****
  • Devin Gray - Dirigo Rataplan II (Rataplan Records, 2018) ****
  • Devin Gray - Fashionable Pop Music (s/r, 2016) ****
  • Frantz Loriot Systematic Distortion Orchestra - The Assembly (Out Now, 2016) ****½
  • Nate Wooley - Argonautica (Firehouse 12 Records, 2016) ****
  • Devin Gray - RelativE ResonancE (Skirl, 2015) ****
  • Devin Gray - Dirigo Rataplan (Skirl, 2012) ****½
  • Dave Ballou, Terrence McManus, Dennis Gray - Thirty9thirty8 (Flattened Planet, 2007) ***½
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