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Announcing Fundamental Festival: The Intersection of New Music and Sound Art

When: May 19, 2017, 5-11:30 pm Where: Planeta, 295 East 8th St, NYC Featuring: Aki Onda Tyler Gilmore’s Western Verse Lea Bertucci Tatsuya Nakatani Tombstones by Michael Pisaro Earth Tongues A marathon evening presenting artists at the cutting edge of NYC’s live sound art community. The performers will present works tailored to Planeta’s unique space

Playlist for Week of April 24, 2017

Fay Victor Ensemble – Cartwheels through the Cosmos (Artist Share, 2006) Sam Weinberg, Charlie Kirchen, Julian Kirshner – Whip the Apron (2017) Tashi Dorji – Live at the Dreamland (Ultra Violet Light, n.d.) [cassette] New York Art Quartet – Call It Art, vol. 5 (Triple Point, 2013) [vinyl] Roswell Rudd – Inside Job (Freedom, 1978)

Playlist for the Week of April 17, 2017

Kesivan & the Lights – Brotherhood (Sony/ATV, 2016) Bonnie Kane-Chris Welcome Duo – Sonic Dream Worlds (Starry Night, 2011) Four Letter Words – Radio Silence (Amalgam, 2017) Bobby Previte – Mass (Rare Noise, 2016) Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures – Glare of the Tiger (Rare Noise, 2017) Reflections in Cosmo – self-titled (Rare Noise, 2017) New

Playlist for the Week of April 10, 2017

David S. Ware Quartet – Wisdom of Uncertainty (AUM Fidelity, 1997) David S. Ware Quartet – Oblations and Blessings (Silkheart, 1996) William Parker-Stefano Scodanibbio Bass Duo – self-titled (Centering, 2017) Jeremiah Cymerman’s Bloodmist – Sheen (5049 Records, 2016) Mazur/Neuringer Duo – The Krakow Letters (Fortune, 2014) Tashi Dorji – Collected Works (Marmara, 2016) Jaimie Branch

Playlist for the Week of March 27, 2017

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

Letter to the Editor

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

Playlist for the Week of March 13, 2017

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

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

Playlist for the Week of March 6, 2017

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

Playlist for the Week of February 27, 2017

Tomas Fujiwara Trio – Variable Bets (Relative Pitch, 2014) Mat Maneri Quintet – Acceptance (Hat Hut, 1998) Quentin Tolimieri – Piano (pfMentum, 2016) Collective 4tet – Orca (Leo, 1997) Sandy Ewen, Damon Smith, Weasel Walter – Live in Texas (2016)