Chris Corsano, Sylvie Courvoisier, Nate Wooley – Salt Task (Relative Pitch, 2016) Mike McGinnis – Recurring Dream (Sunnyside, 2017) Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson – Crop Circles (Relative Pitch, 2017) Tashi Dorji – VDSQ Solo Acoustic, vol. 13 (VDSQ, 2016) [vinyl] Merzbow/Keiji Haino/Balazs Pandi – An Untroublesome Defencelessness (Rare Noise, 2016) Natura Morta – Environ
To the Editor: Respect for your recent open invitation to address the socio-politics of the scene(s) at Jazz Right Now. In that invitation, you mention the recent “Robert Glasper controversy.” To (briefly) review: the pianist Glasper is a black man who said something misogynist and sexist in a recent interview. The interview was with the
Dreams of Belonging Mattias Nilsson / solo piano Dreams of Belonging is a solo piano performance by Mattias Nilsson. The album consists of nine heartfelt offerings. Mattias has a strong melodic and harmonic sense and a talent for laying into the melody of each of these short compositional pieces, exploring them at his leisure. This
Being forty years old is a curious point in an artist’s — or nearly anyone’s — life. Given the advances in modern medicine, it’s just about halfway (on average) to departure and feels like one should have passed through at least one needle’s eye, though it is far from laurel-resting territory. One is neither a
Leap of Faith Orchestra – Supernovae (Evil Clown, 2016) “The full orchestra (with all 5 sub-units) had its first performance on June 4, where we played my composition, The Expanding Universe. The composition does not specify notated melodic or rhythmic information, just durations (by time indices) and English language descriptions of the overall sonority desired.
Anthony Braxton – Quintet (London) 2004: Live at the Royal Festival Hall (Leo, 2005) Whit Dickey, Mat Maneri, Matthew Shipp – Vessel in Orbit (AUM Fidelity, 2017) Cecil Taylor Workshop Ensemble – Legba Crossing (FMP, 1989) Cecil Taylor & Gunter Sommer – Riobec (FMP, 1989) Cecil Taylor & Paul Lovens – Regalia (FMP, 1989) Cecil
Jazz Woman, Me by Fay Victor www.fayvictor.com To be a woman in jazz when you want to be more or other than a standards singer or a pianist To be a woman in jazz and not constantly define yourself as such To be a woman in jazz with creative concepts that are accepted To be
Anthony Burr & Skuli Sverrison – A Thousand Incidents Arise (Workers Institute, 2005) Karin Hellqvist/Keir Neuringer – Warsaw Autumn 2013 (Fortune, 2013) Daniel Sarid Trio – Loventuruos (Out Now, 2016) Rema Hasumi – Billows of Blue (Ruweh, 2017) Ballister (Rempis/Lonberg-Holm/Nilssen-Love) – Slag (Aerophonic, 2016) Triptych Myth (Cooper-Moore, Tom Abbs, Chad Taylor) – The Beautiful (AUM
The world of creative improvised music has long been a macho one, though thankfully there have always been other voices since the art form’s first shell scratchings. It wasn’t all that long ago that in free jazz, the tough, workmanlike masculinity of reedists like Peter Brötzmann and Mats Gustafsson was celebrated as the apex of
I was sitting in a coffee shop in Baltimore City with experimental artist and founder of the nonprofit TECHNE, Bonnie Jones, listening to her talk about the lack of attention, coverage and general acknowledgement of women in jazz and experimental music. Bonnie who is Korean American and has gracefully surpassed her 20s, calmly expressed that
