Chris Kelsey Quintet, by Chris Kelsey

Chris Kelsey Quintet

by Chris Kelsey

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$7 USD or more
Full Digital Discography

7

releases

Get all 7 Chris Kelsey releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Doo Doo Doo Doo (Dee Dee Dah Doo), A Faulty Wiring, Bookendless, The Change of the Face of The Century of Jazz To Come, Chris Kelsey Quintet, 1UP1DOWN Live From Nowhere, and Stutches. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$31.85 USD or more (35% OFF)

1.	Very Good Wrath 06:19	info	buy track
2.	Nikita's Mizkita 06:24	info	buy track
3.	Corn Pone 04:34	info	buy track
4.	Pestimism 04:59	info	buy track
5.	Cowering Inferno 07:15	info	buy track
6.	Purple Drizzle 06:36	info	buy track
7.	Useless Appendage 05:45	info	buy track
8.	Boomtown for Dimwitz 05:18	info	buy track
9.	Moochie the Minor 08:09	info	buy track
10.	Fran's Coy Tune 07:22	info	buy track

about

The saxophonist leads his quintet in a set of his own gnarly original compositions ... a white-hot exercise in harmolodics. Kelsey calls it, "Maybe the best thing I've ever done, the clearest statement of what I'm about, musically, at this point in my life." With a band comprising pianist Lewis Porter, guitarist Jack DeSalvo, bassist Francois Grillot, and drummer Enrique Haneine. In addition to playing straight alto and tenor saxes, Kelsey records on baritone sax for the first time.

Avant Scena Contemporary Music Blog says about CKQuintet: "The music by these creative and great jazz musicians is very dynamic and expressive ... twisting together various playing styles and playing techniques. Five musicians had been playing with each other many times ... they have individual playing manners and unique sounds, all the musical material is gently fused together in one place. Outstanding and impressive solos, passionate and vivacious improvisations, rigorous, loud and powerful blow outs, dynamic rhythmic and synthesis with various music styles .... The music by these great jazz masters is based on avant-garde and experimental jazz, free improvisation, bebop, post-bop, neo-bop and other contemporary and modern jazz styles intonations. Their music always has expressive and extraordinary sound."

1. Very Good Wrath 6’17
2. Nikita's Mizkita 6’23
3. Corn Pone 4’32
4. Pestimism 4’57
5. Cowering Inferno 7’14
6. Purple Drizzle 6’34
7. Useless Appendage 5’43
8. Boomtown for Dimwitz 5’17
9. Moochie the Minor 8’07
10. Fran’s Coy Tune 7’21

All music by Chris Kelsey

credits

released May 12, 2018

CHRIS KELSEY
straight alto saxophone,
tenor saxophone,
baritone saxophone
JACK DeSALVO
guitar
LEWIS PORTER
piano
FRANÇOIS GRILLOT
double-bass
ENRIQUE HANEINE
drums
All music by Chris Kelsey
Recorded by Jim DeSalvo at Trading 8s Studio, June 18, 2016, Paramus, NJ
Mixed and mastered by Jim DeSalvo at Beanstudio, Wayne, NJ
Cover design by Qua’s Eye Graphix
Produced by Jack DeSalvo

license

about

Chris Kelsey Pawling, New York

Chris Kelsey made a name for himself playing, composing, teaching, and writing about modern jazz. He's recorded and produced abundantly as a leader, for C.I.M.P and Unseen Rain, and his own Saxofonis and Tzazz Krytyk imprints. his CD, What I Say: The Electric Miles Project, won a 2013 Independent Music Award. His first novel, Where the Hurt Is, was published in 2018 by Black Rose Writing. ... more