Eddie Gomez

Bill Evans: In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert

by Ian Patterson
December 2, 2024

The release of In Norway: The Konsberg Concert coincides with the sixtieth anniversary of the Konsberg Jazz Festival. Double cause for celebration. The steady flow of archival Evans recordings shows no signs of abating, with In Norway: The Konsberg Concert, recorded in 1970, coming hot on the heels of the previously unreleased Bill Evans: Behind The Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings (2021), Bill Evans: Treasures: Solo, Trio and Orchestra Recordings from Denmark (1965-1969) (2023) and Tales: Live in Copenhagen (1964) ...

Bill Evans: In Norway

by Dan McClenaghan
November 26, 2024

Pianist Bill Evans' career lasted from the late 1950s until his passing in 1980, but beginning around about 20 years into the 21st century CD releases under Evan's name have been rolling along at a brisk clip, thanks to the Resonance, Elemental and Ess- thetics Record labels. Zev Feldman, often called “The Jazz Detective," has played a big part in this steady release of mostly laudable recordings, uncovering lost or shelved tapes of Evan's concerts, resulting in albums like Bill ...

Bill Bruford: The Summerfold Collection 1987-2008

by John Kelman
September 2, 2023

Intrepid percussionist/composer/bandleader Bill Bruford began his career in the late '60s art-rock arena with Yes and, later, King Crimson, but jazz has always moved underneath, like an eddying current. His early recordings, well documented on the companion Winterfold Collection, may not speak the language of jazz, but they possess its spirit. By 1986, Bruford was looking for a new path. Crimson had again dissolved, the 1981-'84 incarnation having provided him with the opportunity to explore nascent electronic drum ...

Bob Albanese: Time Remembered

by Howard Mandel
February 15, 2023

Everything we remember is time past. How those memories live anew in the present is the subject of Time Remembered, pianist Bob Albanese's beautifully rendered solos and collaborations with bassist Eddie Gomez, drummer Willard Dyson, percussionist David Meade and (briefly on one track) “Furmina the Wonderdog." “It's a record of feeling which I hope will awaken a listener's private muse," says Albanese, a piano prodigy of Neptune, New Jersey who nowadays concertizes world-wide, accompanies notable artists across genres, ...

Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez, Ronnie Cuber, WDR Big Band: Center Stage

by Jack Bowers
November 22, 2022

Mixed emotions must underline this review. Center Stage, featuring bassist Eddie Gomez, drummer Steve Gadd and baritone saxophonist Ronnie Cuber with Germany's superb WDR Big Band conducted by Michael Abene, was recorded in Cologne in January and February 2022. Sadly, Ronnie Cuber passed away in October, shortly after the album was released. If this was Cuber's last hurrah, it thunders loudly above the rooftops, as his solos (on each of the album's nine numbers) and melodic passages ...

Bill Evans: You Must Believe In Spring (Hybrid SACD)

by Doug Collette
September 16, 2022

The quietude with which “B Minor Waltz (For Ellaine)" opens You Must Believe In Spring belies the hearty homage this release constitutes in recognition of the title's forty-fifth anniversary. As a means of righteous and deserving tribute to his seventieth studio album, the late Bill Evans' debut for the Warner Bros. label is enhanced in a number of ways. First and foremost is the sonic upgrade for hybrid-SACD (as well as the vinyl LP configuration). Using the Plangent ...

Bill Evans: Behind The Dikes – The 1969 Netherlands Recordings

by Stefano Merighi
May 23, 2022

Gli inediti di Bill Evans cominciano a tracimare in questi anni. E se qualcuno si chiedesse se valga la pena ascoltare anche questo recente Behind the Dikes (doppio CD che documenta concerti in studio in Olanda nel 1969), risponderei di andare subito alla versione di “'Round Midnight" per dissipare ogni dubbio. Evans trasfigura il classico monkiano, modificandone il carattere delle singole sezioni, e lo fa proprio in una inedita fluidità di esecuzione, offrendo una straordinaria vetrina al basso di Eddie ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Eddie Gomez

Source: Michael Ricci
October 4, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Eddie Gomez's birthday today!

Eddie“ Gomez (born October 4, 1944) is a jazz bassist. He was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico; he emigrated with his family at a young age to the United States and grew up in New York. He started on double bass in the New York City school system at the age of eleven and at age thirteen went to the New York City High School of Music and Art. He went ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Eddie Gomez

Source: Michael Ricci
October 4, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Eddie Gomez's birthday today! Eddie“ Gomez (born October 4, 1944) is a jazz bassist. He was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico; he emigrated with his family at a young age to the United States and grew up in New York. He started on double bass in the New York City school system at the age of eleven and at age thirteen went to the New York City High School of Music and Art. He went ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Eddie Gomez

Source: Michael Ricci
October 4, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Eddie Gomez's birthday today! Eddie“ Gomez (born October 4, 1944) is a jazz bassist. He was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico; he emigrated with his family at a young age to the United States and grew up in New York. He started on double bass in the New York City school system at the age of eleven and at age thirteen went to the New York City High School of Music and Art. He went ...
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Jazz Bassist Eddie Gomez Awarded First Honorary Doctorate At Berklee In Valencia, Spain

Source: Berklee Media Relations
October 24, 2013

Legendary jazz bassist and Grammy Award-winner Eddie Gómez was awarded an honorary doctor of music degree by Berklee College of Music in Valencia. Gomez is a native of Puerto Rico who was raised in New York City. This was the first-ever honorary doctorate granted at the college’s new international campus in Spain. The award was presented by Larry Simpson, Berklee senior vice president for academic affairs, at a celebratory concert at the Teatro Martin i Soler in the Palau de ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Eddie Gomez

Source: Michael Ricci
October 4, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Eddie Gomez's birthday today!

Eddie“ Gomez (born October 4, 1944) is a jazz bassist. He was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico; he emigrated with his family at a young age to the United States and grew up in New York. He started on double bass in the New York City school system at the age of eleven and at age thirteen went to the New York City High School of Music and Art. He went ...
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Enter the "Eddie Gomez - Per Sempre" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
August 24, 2012

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the BFM Jazz “Eddie Gomez - Per Sempre“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on September 24th. Click here to enter the contest

(Following Eddie Gomez at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)

Good luck! Your Friends at BFM Jazz About Per Sempre Recorded in Bologna, Italy while on tour in winter 2009, Per Sempre is a luminous jazz ...
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Eddie Gomez - Per Sempre (2012)

Source: Something Else!
May 1, 2012

Always an impressive technician, Gomez has an identifiably soulful sound—sometimes from the very first plucking of his bass. That has carried him through an impressive array of settings, from traditional trios and fusion-infused amalgams all the way over into the delicate lyricisms of chamber jazz. The forthcoming Per Sempre fits squarely into the latter category, as Gomez settles into a program marked by sweet grace notes, diaphanous beauty but perhaps not enough variety. Recording in Bologna, Italy, Gomez is joined ...
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Eddie Gomez: Everything I Want to Know About Jazz Bass

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
September 13, 2011

Everything I want to know about jazz bass, I can learn from Eddie Gomez. How the bassist sets the pulse, how the bassist keeps everyone in time, how the bassist sets the artistic tone and feel, how the bassist augments the melodic direction, how the bass can sing a line or become a chordal support system. The only thing I can't figure out from Eddie Gomez is why so many “listeners" tune out during the bass solo. When Gomez solos, ...
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Eddie Gomez Trio in Mexico, Tour 2010

Source: All About Jazz
October 31, 2010

Legendary bassist Eddie Gomez will be going on a brief 7-day tour in Mexico from November 30th through December 6th. Gomez will be touring with his trio including Stefan Karlsson on piano and Rodrigo Villanueva on drums. Dates & Venues:

Nov. 30: D'Polak Forum, Polanco, Mexico D.F. 8:00 pm Dec. 1: Centro Morelense de las Artes, Cuernavaca, Morelos, 6:00 pm Dec. 2: Masterclass at Universidad La Salle, Cuernavaca. 3:00 pm Dec. 3: Ziinco Jazz Club, Centro Histrico, Mexico D.F. 10:00 ...
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Bass Icon Eddie Gomez Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
May 20, 2010

Eddie Gomez is known throughout the world as a consummate bassist, sterling educator and a musician active in a wide variety of musical settings. He has been on the music scene for more than 40 years and has worked with everyone from Bobby Darin to Giuseppi Logan. Gomez moved from Puerto Rico as a child and was playing music from an early age. He came to prominence when Bill Evans asked him to be the bassist for the pianist's trio, ...
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