Tag Archives: Avant-Garde Jazz

A performing/recording designer and educator located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Andrew Bishop absolutely avoids a rigidly idiomatic method of jazz. The saxophonist/clarinetist’s wide-ranging perspective offers led him to traverse stylistic limitations in his personal projects while developing innovative alliances with collaborators over the jazz range, from Midwestern post-boppers to Brooklyn-based …

Guitarist and koto improviser Jason Stanyek became mixed up in U.S. Western Coast songs picture in the middle-’90s. The composer and article writer was a doctoral applicant at U.C., NORTH PARK, even while occupied inside a quartet with fellow U.C.S.D. graduates clarinetist Pat O’Keefe, trumpeter Glen Whitehead, and bassist/ready pianist …

Reed participant Peter A. Schmid was created in 1959 and presently makes his house in Uster, Switzerland. His desire for the bass end of deep reed devices offers led him to take part in dozen of tasks that blur the margins of jazz, free of charge improvisation, and traditional music, …

Chris Hillsides was created on July 18, 1946, and raised in Boston. The musical prodigy became efficient on drums, bass, keyboards, horn, electric guitar, and structure before he could legitimately drive. The Totally free Spirits, a jazz-rock music group, were his initial major musical success. The lineup contains guitarist Larry …

Keyboardist and sampler musician Diane Labrosse is a primary person in the Montreal avant-garde music collective Ambiances Magnétiques. In the 1980s, she had taken part within a string of avant-pop feminist groupings. Later, she turned from keyboards towards the sampler and from rock and roll to electronica improv. Although she’s …

Belgian saxophonist Michel Mast can frequently be heard using tenor in avant-garde jazz and rock albums, and he continues to be featured about baritone and soprano saxophones aswell. Mast began showing up on recordings in the first ’80s, as an associate of Luc Houtkamp’s saxophone quartet Hommage within the group’s …

Synonymous using the legacy lately jazz bassist Charlie Haden, the Liberation Music Orchestra was perhaps one of the most important groups to emerge in the avant-garde jazz amount of the 1960s. Founded by Haden and pianist/collaborator Carla Bley in 1969 as method to protest public and politics injustices — so …

The Dutch jazz outfit I Compani — whose early lineup included bandleader Bo van de Graaf (soprano and tenor saxophone), Frank Nielander (alto sax), Wouter van Bemmel (trumpet, tuba), Jeroen Doomernik (trumpet), Jeroen Goldsteen (piano), Carel van Rijn (bass), and Fred van Duynhoven (drums) — received initial recognition in 1985, …

When Dave Douglas first stepped away along with his own saving and performing projects in the first to mid-’90s, the Brooklyn-based trumpeter/composer/bandleader instantly demonstrated his mastery of Parallel Worlds in music. He created the Balkan-influenced Tiny Bell Trio with drummer Jim Dark and guitarist Brad Shepik (who utilized the surname …

Known because of their volatile personalities, Seattle group Swallow came jointly in 1987. The group contains Fishing rod Moody (aka Fishing rod Ho) on electric guitar and vocals, Andy Scheen (aka Andy Springsheen) on bass, Chris Pugh on electric guitar, and Scott Schickler (aka Electric guitar) on drums. Right from …