Tag Archives: Avant-Garde Jazz

Stomu Takeishi has played electric powered fret-less bass in a number of jazz settings through the entire ’90s and 2000s. An associate of Myra Melford’s Crush Trio (with drummer Kenny Wollesen), and Erik Friedlander’s Topaz (with sibling Satoshi Takeishi on percussion), Stomu Takeishi in addition has performed in trumpeter Cuong …

Throughout his career, bassist Buell Neidlinger has played such a multitude of styles that one may only conclude he is able to play anything. He began studying traditional cello and in addition discovered trumpet and piano before buying bass. After shifting to NY in 1955, Neidlinger used Dixieland and mainstream …

Offering Chicago jazz mainstays Matana Roberts, Joshua Abrams, and Chad Taylor, Sticks & Rocks is really a collective that first came together as associates from the Sunday-night home band on the Velvet Lounge. They grew a considerable following within the Windy Town and documented their eponymous debut in 2002 for …

Pianist Myra Melford found its way to NEW YORK at an auspicious period, poised to become listed on other top performers from the downtown jazz picture as a fresh community of collaborating music artists expanded the possibilities for creative appearance. Delivered in Evanston, Illinois (simply north of Chicago), Melford’s fascination …

Yet another task from boundary-pushing jazz tenor saxophonist Ken Vandermark, (((Powerhouse Audio))) were conceived by Vandermark in an effort to concentrate on performing music based round the bass acoustic guitar. To these ends, Vandermark combined up with bassists Nate McBride and Ingebrigt Håker Flaten. Also presented within the ensemble are …

Trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff pioneered the artwork of jazz polyphonics, introducing towards the avant-garde the symphonic custom of performing multiple records simultaneously. Delivered in Frankfurt, Germany, on Sept 5, 1928, Mangelsdorff was raised enthralled by jazz, devouring his old sibling Emil’s record collection. His uncle, a specialist violinist, offered him music …

Among the giants of free of charge jazz, Albert Ayler was also perhaps one of the most controversial. His large build and wide vibrato had been difficult to disregard, and his 1966 group sounded such as a runaway New Orleans brass music group from 1910. Unlike John Coltrane or Eric …

Jazz pianist, novelist, sculptor, painter, Al Neil can be an artist right down to the bone tissue. Exalted, enthusiastic, whimsical, actually cynical sometimes, he regularly adjustments skins and continuously remained within the underground since he fallen from the bebop picture in the first ’60s. Located in or about Vancouver for …

New York-based multi-instrumentalist Brandon Evans was created in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in 1972. He started playing music as an adolescent while students at the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Artwork Institute, and afterwards began monitoring and executing with jazz saxophonist Sonny Simmons. Ultimately, Evans relocated to Connecticut to review structure …

A local Californian who was raised in Santa Barbara, drummer Tom Rainey moved to NEW YORK in 1979 whilst in his early twenties (after their studies at the Berklee University of Music in Boston beginning in 1975 and time for California to reside in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA). The brand …