Sunday Evening With Billy Mintz Band at The Falcon

"...many drummers pound and roar, but a rare few can make their instruments purr and sing. Mintz, who has found a niche navigating between avant-garde channels and conventional ones, is a careful yet adventurous stylist who recalls the late Paul Motian in his sensitivity and musicality. " — The New Yorker

Drummer/composer Billy Mintz has a long career of enhancing the music of others with his percussive artistry, everyone from saxophonist Lee Konitz to pianist Hal Galper, to clarinet master Perry Robinson. His own discography as a leader is small, with frequent revisitations of a handful of original compositions that are as distinctive and as worthy of the multiple version approach as the music of Thelonious Monk. He writes small masterpieces and turns his ensembles loose on them...

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"...many drummers pound and roar, but a rare few can make their instruments purr and sing. Mintz, who has found a niche navigating between avant-garde channels and conventional ones, is a careful yet adventurous stylist who recalls the late Paul Motian in his sensitivity and musicality. " — The New Yorker

Drummer/composer Billy Mintz has a long career of enhancing the music of others with his percussive artistry, everyone from saxophonist Lee Konitz to pianist Hal Galper, to clarinet master Perry Robinson. His own discography as a leader is small, with frequent revisitations of a handful of original compositions that are as distinctive and as worthy of the multiple version approach as the music of Thelonious Monk. He writes small masterpieces and turns his ensembles loose on them
Billy Mintz, with finely-focused vision, has a lot to say, and he and this band say it with undiluted integrity. At times wild and free, at other times reflective and beautiful, always in a distinctly off-kilter, Mintz-ian way.
Mr. Mintz currently lives in New York, where he performs with the Alan Broadbent Trio, Roberta Piket Trio, and Tony Malaby, among others, as well as leading the Billy Mintz Band, the ten-piece Two Bass Band, and performing solo drum set concerts.
Check out Billy's album Ugly Beautiful (2017)...a triumph!

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