William Parker – Voices Fall from the Sky (AUM Fidelity, 2018) [3 CD box] Weasel Walter – Skhiizm (ugExplode, 2018) Don Dietrich & Ben Hall – Spitfire (What the …?, 2011) [vinyl] Nakata (Patrick Shiroishi & Paco Casanova) – Bokanovsky’s Process (Jacknife Records & Tapes, 2017) Mike McGinnis – Singular Awakening (Sunnyside, 2018)
Guest Writer: Vanessa Vargas An immensely talented composer, improviser, and guitarist, Mary Halvorson has been active in the avant-garde jazz scene in New York since 2002. In the past eight years, she has released seven album recordings – six of them demonstrating her skill as a bandleader and one as a solo guitarist. Her original
Guest Writer: Adin Rimland Gentrification is described as a replacement of lower-income populations and businesses in a specific neighborhood by more affluent ones. Gentrification actually goes beyond displacement and includes the replacement and exclusion of certain populations and businesses from a neighborhood. In this article, I want to touch on the elements that create a space which allows
Guest Writer/Interviewer: Nico Bonacquist Transcript from interview on WPIR Pratt Radio. BONACQUIST: Hello, you’re tuning into WPIR Pratt Radio. Today we have Yoni Kretzmer live. KRETZMER: Hello, how’s it going? Happy to be here! BONACQUIST: He’s going to play a little bit and then we are going to talk. [KRETZMER SOLO PERFORMANCE] BONACQUIST: Awesome! KRETZMER:
When one gets busy in New York, it is easy to go a year or more without seeing certain performers, even those who play regularly in the city. That was the case for me with vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Anais Maviel (voice, n’goni) prior to her performance at Roulette on May 29. On that night, she
Ataraxia (Jagath Lakpriya, Drew Phelps, Dennis Gonzalez) – Ts’ibil Chaaltun (Daagnim Records, 2018) [vinyl] Weasel Walter – Curses (self-released, 2016) fri(G)id – The Terminology is Flawed (self-released, 2018) [cassette] Patrick Shiroshi – Tulean Dispatch (Mondoj, 2017) [cassette] Rempis/Daisy Duo & Guests – Dodecahedron (Aerophonic, 2018) Unconscious Collective (Gregg Prickett, Aaron Gonzalez, Stefan Gonzalez) – Pleistocene Moon (Tofu Carnage, 2014) [vinyl] Wudasse
Guest Writer: Leia Bradley A permutation of the cortical celestial cerebrum, that an open eye like open lip is invitation cerebellum
The Guilt Of … – Isolation Room (Last Hurrah, 2013) [vinyl] Todd Clouser, Brian Chase, Thollem McDonas – Dub Narcotic Session, vol. 2 (Personal Archives, 2017) Jonovon Cooper – Suite Abyssinia (2015) Daniel Carter, William Parker, Matthew Shipp – Seraphic Light: Live at Tufts University (AUM Fidelity, 2018) Kristo Rodzevski – The Rabbit and the Fallen Sycamore (self-released, 2017)
Guest Writer: Vanessa Vargas The DMG 27th Anniversary Series of Sonic Celebrations continued on the evening of April 29th with the Jesse Dulman Quartet. Located in Chinatown, the Downtown Music Gallery is a long-running and internationally known record store. Playfully coined during the concert as “the only avant-garde jazz store still on the planet,” it
Corima (Andrea Calderon, Paco Casanova, Patrick Shiroishi, Ryan Kamiyamazaki, Sergio Sanchez Ravelo) – Amaterasu (Soleil Zeuhl, 2018) Pharoah Sanders Quintet – self-titled (ESP-Disk’, 1965) [vinyl] Weasel Walter, Henry Kaiser, Damon Smith – Plane Crash (ugExplode, 2009) Quin Kirchner – The Other Side of Time (Astral Spirits, 2018) [double vinyl] Weasel Walter – A Pound of Flesh (self-released, 2017) [disc
