NEWS/PRESS
photo by Peter Gannushkin
October 2022 – New album (released last month, just now updating) with my good friend Kieran Daly, released on the Madacy Jazz Imprint.
Behold – https://madacyjazz.bandcamp.com/album/live-concert-single-sided-split
FEB 2022 – I’m evidently pretty bad at updating this section, but there was a long article written about me in Bandcamp Daily this last week, about an aspect of my activity in the last few years – https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/sam-weinberg-interview
AUGUST 2021 – I am happy to report that I have received one of the City Artist Corps grants which I will use for four concerts in the fall in NYC. All of these will be free. Details forthcoming.
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MAY 2021 – Terrace Recordings released a vinyl LP of the BLOAR record Another Candy Bar From G.I. Joe which can be found on my Bandcamp. It was reviewed by Something Else here – https://somethingelsereviews.com/2021/05/14/bloar-sam-weinberg-andrew-smiley-henry-fraser-jason-nazary-another-candy-bar-from-g-i-joe-2021/
And THIP an album with close friends Henry Fraser and John McCowen was released by Nat Baldwin’s Triptick Tapes and it was reviewed here - https://www.freejazzblog.org/2021/05/fraser-mccowen-weinberg-thip-tripticks.html
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DEC 2020 – Long year of no updates here, even though there may have been things to note, Covid notwithstanding. Hank Shteamer gave a brief shoutout to BUST my duo record with Henry Fraser in his Rolling Stone year-end roundup – https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/best-jazz-albums-2020-1103878/
I also released a ton of things on Bandcamp this year in addition to BUST – a solo thing Receding Obstacles and Beyond It A Wind More Real, trio with Sandy Ewen and Weasel Walter Ventricles, trio with Henry Fraser and Weasel Walter called Grist, a duo with Alex Ward called Proper Placement, two records with Jason Nazary (Nihilartikles and Au Revoir A Moultrie), a BLOAR live album called Another Candy Bar From GI Joe (which will see a vinyl release in 2021).
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DEC 2019 - “Drolleries” made Rolling Stone’s “Best Jazz of 2019” roundup - “Drolleries, an album by saxophonist Sam Weinberg’s outfit Bloor (which has since changed its name to Bloar), took frenetic math-jazz to harsh extremes, sometimes suggesting the Minutemen tackling contemporary classical music.” - https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/2019-jazz-albums-923949/
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SEPT 2019 - New record, “Foment”, out now! It features Chicagoan Tyler Damon (drums) & my main compadre Henry Fraser (bass) recorded while Henry and I were in Chicago in April. Happy that Bill Harris of Amalgam put this out!
It can be acquired here: http://music.amalgamusic.org/album/foment
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BLOOR released our debut album, “Drolleries”, via Astral Spirits Records on January 25, 2019 and there’s been some nice press rolling through. We’ve also added my dear friend and genius Henry Fraser on electric bass and are re-emerging Summer 2019 with a new book of music. All reviews below hyperlinked -
-Brooklyn Rail
-Dusted
-Tabs Out
-NYC Jazz Record
-Nowie Idzie Od Morza – (Poland)
-JazzRightNow Interview about Drolleries
-Music & More
-Something Else Reviews
-JazzWord
-Free Jazz Blog
-Radio Student (Slovenia)
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I interviewed my friend Peter Evans about his solo music for BOMB Magazine –https://bombmagazine.org/articles/in-flow-peter-evans-interviewed/
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I was a guest on the illustrious 5049 podcast with Jeremiah Cymerman in November 2018 -
http://www.5049records.com/podcast/sam-weinberg