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River Creatures (feat. Nate Wooley & Tom Rainey)

by Hery Paz

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1.
Systematic Assumptions 08:19
2.
Recoil 13:23
3.
Espejismo 05:39
4.
Delaminate 06:40
5.
Friction Fit 04:05
6.
River Creatures 08:56

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Criaturas de Río (River Creatures)

Verde (.)

              Mas allá del reflejo... (ESPACIO)
                  Los sueños se esconden
                    Entre los dedos de los pies.
            Fango.
           Piedras...                        (ESPACIO)
La realidad solo habita en la superficie.
                              El Río...        (ESPACIO)
                                Calla para siempre 

H. Paz

Recently I was asked if it was common for improvising musicians to be polymaths – after all, the number of players/composers who paint, teach, dance, organize, photograph, write, make films, and live creatively is quite striking. The charged impetus to follow the flow of mind, body, and history onto a variety of interconnected avenues is enticing and continually rewarding. Tenor saxophonist Hery Paz, from Cuba and an integral actor in New York’s jazz vanguard for the better part of a decade, is an artist whose creativity spans forms, his modes of expression interleaved. In addition to improvising and composing free music, he also paints and is a poet, moving between media with ease:
 
“For me, there is no difference in the practice and application of different artistic mediums; poetry, acrylics, oil and sound are just different tools to try to weave pieces of my imaginarium together. I have always aimed for them to be one wholesome entity, getting as close as I can to blur any seeming gaps.”
 
There is an innate flexibility in all of this, and it shows in the music. I might add that this trio, with the drums of Tom Rainey and the trumpet of Nate Wooley (a writer and scholar in addition to being a fiery brass player and composer), offers a turn-on-a-dime versatility, moving from thickets of overlaid impasto to spidery webs of flattened gesture. In forming the unit, Paz says
 
“There is something about specific ways that Tom articulates on the drums that I tied to aspects of Nate's playing. It is all related to fast decay, short attack, and a staccato palette.”
 
The result here – amazingly, this disc is only Paz’ second album as a leader – is an outpouring of expression that is incisive and full of possibilities. Hopefully it also opens the door for your creative spirit.
 
Clifford Allen
November 2023

Boundless gratitude to Tom and Nate for the spirit of this music, to Marcos Cavaleiro, João Pedro Brandão and Demian Cabaud as well as the Porta-Jazz family for always making Porto the closest place to home. This music would not exist without love and support of my family, Susana, Dariencito, my mother Rosita and my second mom Elena, but specially thanks to my father Heriberto Paz for the gift of music and for instilling river culture in me... "We inner islanders are not people of the SEA, we are RIVER CREATURES"

H. Paz

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released January 30, 2024

Hery Paz: Tenor Saxophone / Drawings
Nate Wooley: Trumpet
Tom Rainey: Drums

Recorded Live by René Pierre Allain
At Scholes Studio, October 2021
Mixed by Juanma Trujillo
Mastered by Eivind Opsvik

Hery Paz: herypaz.com
(CURUJEY Publishing , ASCAP)

Artwork by mariamonica.com
Label: portajazz.com/carimbo

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Hery Paz New York, New York

Hery Paz is a New York based Cuban multi-instrumentalist, composer and visual artist. He is an integral element of the creative music scene in New York where he has worked with artists such as, Dave Liebman, William Parker, Cooper Moore, Ralph Alessi, Francisco Mela, Tom Rainey, Thomas Morgan, Román Díaz, Kris Davis, Miguel Zenón, Juan De Marcos Gonzales, Gerald Cleaver and Joe Morris...
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