Kinan Azmeh CityBand at Joe’s Pub
On September 3rd Kinan Azmeh CityBand returned to Joe’s Pub for the official release of their new album, Elastic City. The disc, a collection of passionate and virtuosic pieces in the…
Metal Meets Jazz Meets Free Improvisation: Houston’s The Core Trio Makes Musical Alchemy
(Houston, TX) The music of the Houston ensemble The Core Trio, featuring Richard Cholakian on drums, Thomas Helton on upright bass, and Seth Paynter on saxophones, is an utterly convincing…
Holding It Down: Premiere of a New Multimedia Work by Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd
The most recent collaboration of composer/pianist Vijay Iyer and poet Mike Ladd, entitled Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project, received its world premiere last week (September 19-22) at The Harlem Stage…
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2012 Outsound Summit lineup revealed
The San Francisco Bay Area’s underground music scene will come together this coming July in an annual celebration of its tremendous range of styles, its love of improvisation, and its…
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb Discusses Her Music and Her Dream World
(also published on Urban Modes) ETHEL will soon be reunited with our dear friend and collaborator Ayelet Rose Gottlieb at the 2012 Winter Jazz Fest (January 7th @ Zinc Bar).…
Joel Harrison premiere at the new Roulette
The newly revived Roulette (on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn) is the site for a premiere this coming Friday (details here). Guitarist-composer Joel Harrison’s Still Point – Turning World (a veiled reference…
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Interview with Mimi Goese and Ben Neill
Songs for Persephone: Mimi Goese & Ben Neill Take a seductive voiced art-pop singer and a post-jazz/alt-classical trumpeter. Add fragments of nineteenth century classical melodies, electronics elicited by a “mutantrumpet”…
Trygve Seim makes NYC debut on 9/11
Last year, saxophonist Trygve Seim and pianist Andreas Utnem collaborated on Purcor, a recording for the ECM imprint (Seim’s sixth as leader). Drawing on material from a wide range of…
In Convergence Liberation: A Performer’s Perspective
“The composer’s job is to create a context for music-making to reflect the emerging consciousness.” Hafez Modirzadeh ETHEL performs music of Hafez Modirzadeh By Cornelius Dufallo Also published on Urban…
Punky Cagey Party
Shh! We’re improvising! The Lepers of Melancholy, Houston TX (photo by Jonathan Jindra) While reading Conversing With Cage at a bus stop today, I stumbled across this funny yet in…