Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Thanks to a glorious coincidence of programming, the Thanksgiving holiday weekend will spotlight three of the most appealing tenor saxophonists in Chicago jazz -- on the South Side.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Roscoe Mitchell Nonaah Nessa 2008 Paul Flaherty Aria Nativa Family Vineyard 2009 John Butcher Resonant Spaces Confront 2008 The solo horn concert was one of the landmarks of the early days of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. It wasn't without precedent (see Sonny Rollins on the Manhattan Bridge), but the Chicago collective of eclectic virtuosity made it repertory. AACM member...
St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest. Starting off, as we usually do, with a couple of items about Miles Davis , it seems that Kind of Blue drummer Jimmy Cobb 's So What...
CR Blog (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
After premiering in Edinburgh earlier this year, the film of the best alternative music festival in the world tours the UK from this week; opening in Manchester on Friday and then taking in Glasgow, London, Leeds, Brighton and Bristol...
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Destination: Out (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
CARDIO – LIVE QUESTIONS OF AGENCY – LIVE Vijay Iyer Trio [ exclusive to D:O ] : 2009 VI, piano; Stephan Crump, bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums. We’re incredibly pleased to have longtime friend of the site Vijay Iyer back for another guest post. This time he’s been generous enough to share two exclusive live tracks from his trio, recorded [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
The 13th annual Edgefest (October 14-17, 2009) will feature an international roster with a focus on reed instruments as it presents some of the most celebrated and creative multi-instrumentalists on the scene today. In the tradition of Edgefest, the roster also includes performers and ensembles that live in our home community of SE Michigan...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist Tatsu Aoki (pictured), who blends traditional Japanese music, jazz and experimental sounds, is coming to St. Louis to play a free concert at 7:00 p.m. Friday, November 27 in the Saint Louis Art Museum's Grigg Gallery.Aoki, who plays bass, taiko drums, and shamisen...
St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist Tatsu Aoki ( pictured ), who blends traditional Japanese music, jazz and experimental sounds, is coming to St. Louis to play a free concert at 7:00 p.m. Friday, November 27 in the Saint Louis Art Museum 's Grigg Gallery. Aoki, who plays bass, taiko drums, and shamisen ( a three-stringed Japanese lute ), was born in Tokyo but has lived in Chicago since 1977. He has...
St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest. * Let's start with our usual helping of Miles Davis -related news - specifically, some more details about the upcoming 70-CD set reissue...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Factor out the usual problems -- poor sound, grungy venue, low-down ambience -- and there was much to applaud at the 31st Chicago Jazz Festival, which ended Sunday night in Grant Park.
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
The setting may have been flawed, but the musicmaking proved compelling over the weekend, as the 31st Chicago Jazz Festival unfolded in Grant Park.
Musical Assumptions (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
I'll leave writing a detailed review of the music that Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, and Roscoe Mitchell played at the Chicago Jazz Festival earlier this evening to Michael , and will spend my two cents on the person interpreting the concert visually for people who could not hear the music. This was my first purely instrumental concert with an interpreter for the deaf and hard of hearing. I...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Photo of Muhal Richard Abrams provided by the Mayor's Office of Special Events This weekend brings the 31st installment of the Chicago Jazz Festival , packing Grant Park with its usual solid mix of local, national, and international acts. The Festival is broadly split into daytime and nighttime slates, with the afternoon performances spread over three stages: Jazz on Jackson, the Jazz Heritage Stage,...
The Chicago Blog (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
In his book A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music George E. Lewis, the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University, has produced the definitive history of the Association for the Advancement...
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
Nessa NCD-2 While a hallmark of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, wide-open spaces and atomistic sound-rhythms (frequently on found “little instruments”) are an incomplete picture of how AACM groups were aesthetically manifest. Certainly, space was endemic to groups like the Creative Construction Company and records like Joseph Jarman’s As If It Were the [...]...
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