Tag Archives: Free Improvisation

Alan Sparhawk and his wife Mimi Parker shaped the minimalist slowcore group Lower in 1993 to counter-top the then-burgeoning grunge picture of Duluth, MN. As vocalist and guitarist, Sparhawk led the important indie clothing to more common attention using the much-lauded Points We Lost within the Fire, as well as …

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 …

Bloodcount stands among the features of Tim Berne’s multifaceted music career. The music group was among Berne’s principal innovative outlets through the 1990s — resurrected once again during the brand-new millennium — along with a fertile surface for his exclusive compositional and improvisational strategies. For a lot of the ’90s, …

Zeena Parkins takes on the harp, piano, accordion, and sampler in a number of improvised, songs, contemporary composed, and avant-garde jazz configurations. Delivered in Detroit, Michigan, she researched dance, harp, and traditional piano, and gained an excellent Arts level from Bard University. Parkins shifted to N.Con.C. in 1984, where she …

A founding person in Henry Cow in addition to a frequent visitor on function by similar-minded organizations Hatfield & the North and Slapp Happy, Tim Hodgkinson played reeds and keyboards but later on moved into contemporary-classical structure. He previously also performed in or led post-punk/free of charge jazz groups just …

San Francisco-based Dimuzio is one particular unsung artistic statistics whose impact and abilities have got substantially outstripped his presence. Composer, multi-instrumentalist, audio designer, experimental digital musician, sideman and documenting studio owner-Dimuzio continues to be busy carrying out his issue(s) because the past due 1980’s, but continues to be only recognized …

Instrument schooling, trombone as well as other winds using the legendary Carmine Caruso. Also analyzed with Roswell Rudd, Jim Fulkerson, didgeridoo with Stuart Dempster, digital music with Alvin Lucier, and is at the entire world Music system at Wesleyan University or college. Zummo’s many compositions for ensemble (incl. Zummo Labs, …

German clarinetist/composer Theo Jörgensmann is among the most advanced contemporary free improvisers in his instrument, merging moody chamber jazz with tips of the modal hard bop sensibility. Delivered in 1948, Jörgensmann produced his initial recordings in the past due ’70s, including 1978’s quintet outing JUST DO IT Clarinet and 1979’s …

Composer, arranger, and world-class bandoneon participant Dino Saluzzi was created in 1935 in Campo Santo, Argentina, the boy of multi-instrumentalist and composer Cayetano Saluzzi, and spent his years as a child in Buenos Aires, where he was an associate from the Orquestra Estable in Radio un Mundo. By age 14 …

Generally a trio of drummer Eddie Prévost, saxophonist Lou Gare and guitarist Keith Rowe, AMM has explored the minimalist fringe of avant-garde chance operations and improvisational jazz since its inception in 1965. The group debuted with AMMMusic in 1967, and released two extra albums through the past due ’60s. A …