Category: Press

The Mercury News Feature Article

Chris was profiled in The Mercury News by journalist Andy Gilbert ahead of his concerts in San Francisco, San Jose, and Berkeley.

“In an intimate and visceral way Brooklyn vibraphonist Chris Dingman knows too well that music can ease life’s most difficult passages.

The San Jose-raised jazz musician set out to create new sounds in the summer of 2018 to help comfort his father, Joseph Dingman Jr., as he faced his final weeks in hospice. In honing a body of meditative solo pieces he not only provided his father with a sonic embrace, Dingman found another way for them to connect as the project became a collaboration.

Read the full article here

New Video

Chris was recently featured on The Hand and Eye blog in a short video about him, the vibes, and his piece “Ali.”

 

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More Rave Reviews

The Subliminal and the Sublime has continued to garner glowing acclaim this fall, this time from Huffington Post, Stereophile, and All About Jazz.

unfolding like a story in a gorgeous legato arc… a sonic gem

– David Adler, Stereophile

 

Truly one of the year’s finest recordings in any genre
5 stars

– Dave Wayne, All About Jazz

 

The Subliminal to the Sublime is an “aural feast” to be savored. If you have 60 minutes in your frantic life to dedicate to this music, sit down in your zero gravity recliner with a fine set of quality headphones and allow yourself to be immersed in Mr. Dingman’s images. You will be renewed.

– Ralph Miriello, Huffington Post

 

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