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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 …

Since he moved to NEW YORK within the mid-’70s, alto and baritone saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Tim Berne continues to be an important person in that city’s creative music community; he asserts a solid and singular musical character throughout his diverse and sometimes absorbing functions. He has inspired other and …

A solid proponent of the avant-garde jazz picture, trumpeter and occasional bassist Ralph Alessi first began monitoring classical trumpet along with his dad. Growing up within the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Region, Alessi eventually discovered freelance careers with different chamber ensembles in addition to use the SAN FRANCISCO BAY …

NY bassist Drew Gress became increasingly noticeable in modern improvised music through the entire 1980s and 1990s. In the past due ’80s, he co-founded the quartet JV, which released three albums on Enja spanning 1987-1994. Later on, Gress led his very own N.Con.-structured quartet, Jagged Sky, who released their debut, …

Jazz pianist and key pad participant Craig Taborn began functioning professionally within the 1990s in a number of musical contexts, which range from more straight-ahead jazz to more outdoors music, with small jazz music artists, seasoned veterans, and also techno performers. In his hometown of Minneapolis, Taborn analyzed piano, structure, …