The SML guitarist moves away from the instrumental collective’s fragrant, glitched-up grooves on his new solo album, instead charting a path through weirder waters. Featuring a wealth of pedals, loops, samples and synths, Uhlmann creates a strikingly diverse yet surprisingly simple world, one in which wisdom and naivete strike a tentative balance. Though his sound may be warped and stretched, Uhlmann’s peculiar emotional resonance rings clear and true.
Category: Gregory Uhlmann
Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes
In the latest permutation of the adventurous L.A. jazz group SML, guitarist Gregory Ulhmann and saxophonist Josh Johnson are joined by bassist Sam Wilkes, for an album that both deepens and expands the SML project. Looking back to bebop and drifting through post-rock, with pit stops at Jaco Pastorius, Lyle Mays and the Beatles, Uhlmann/Johnson/Wilkes is unafraid to embrace the beautiful, even as it remains committed to experimentation and smooth radicalism.