The twisted avant-jazz of Phillip Johnston first reared its head through the early ’80s, when the composer and saxophonist was a staple from the downtown NEW YORK underground music scene. There, he performed with a number of performers both in and from the jazz community, included in this John Zorn, …

United kingdom saxophonist Elton Dean was among the crucial figures in English free jazz for many years. Closely associated with the Canterbury picture, Dean — given birth to in Nottingham on Oct 28, 1945 — experienced a réamounté a lot more assorted and than that label would describe. Dean started …

Among the seminal free of charge jazz figures, Costs Dixon made his tag as a new player, organizer, and educator within a profession that spanned a lot more than 50 years. Dixon was a jaggedly lyrical trumpeter — his delivery was as vocalic as that of any free of charge …

b. Steven Norman Lackritz, 23 July 1934, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 4 June 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Few contemporary jazzmen have selected the soprano saxophone as their primary device; Steve Lacy was most likely unique in selecting it as his only 1. Reputed to end up being the participant …

Although they certainly qualify as you of England’s most successful thrash metallic bands, Lancashire’s hapless Xentrix eventually found epitomize most of Great Britain’s fairly insignificant contributions to acceleration metal — when compared with the genre’s absolutely dominating American bands. Shaped in 1986 (as Lovely Vengeance, in the city of Preston) …

It’s problematic for whoever has heard them never to want — as well as like — the Tremeloes. These were one of the most prodigiously talented United kingdom pop/rock and roll bands from the 1960s, plus they threw that skill into the producing of incredibly catchy and well-crafted singles that …

Michael Mantler has already established considerable effect on the jazz picture as a article writer, participant, label owner, and activist. He examined musicology and trumpet on the Academy of Music and Vienna School in the first ’60s, then transferred to America and enrolled at Berklee. He transferred to NY in …

Like his contemporaries, saxophonist Steve Lacy and trombonist Roswell Rudd, Swiss drummer Pierre Favre performed Dixieland before getting into a profession in free jazz. Favre was self-taught on drums. He started working appropriately at 17; he used touring American music artists like Lil Hardin Armstrong and Albert Nicholas within the …

Throughout his career, Perry Robinson has sought to accomplish the near-impossible: establish himself as an avant-garde leader on a musical instrument still closely from the swing era. After intensive formal research (like the Lenox College of Jazz in 1959), Robinson used such advanced music artists as Paul Bley, Archie Shepp, …

Initially going from the name Mystery Tribe, the band of Norwegian sonic experimentalists Madder Mortem was formed in 1993 simply by singer Agnet M. Kirkevaag, guitarists B.P.M. Kirkevaag and Christian Rudd, bassist Boye Nyberg, and drummer Sigurd Nielsen. Since virtually all were involved with other band tasks, the group’s lineup …