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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 …

Chicago-based clarinetist James Falzone is usually in the vanguard of contemporary players who utilize the solid wood horn as their primary instrument. Born Sept 1, 1971, his education started in earnest along with his uncle, Wayne DiPasquale, a tenor saxophonist and film composer. He launched Falzone to fellow Chicagoan and …

Between 2000 and 2012, Chicago clarinetist, composer, improviser, and bandleader Adam Falzone revealed an expansive artistic imagination on eight recordings released by his Allos Records label, including two albums by his Middle Eastern-informed Allos Musica group and three by his shimmery avant jazz quartet KLANG, but Falzone’s next task would …

Reedist Keefe Jackson emerged in the vanguard of Chicago’s post-millennial jazz community with 2006’s Set Everyday, his 1st release like a bandleader. Given birth to and elevated in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Jackson began monitoring cello at age group three, quickly developing an infatuation with jazz. At ten he obtained his first …