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A downtown N.Con.C. supergroup, led by keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, hybridizes jazz, rock and roll, improv, and dashes of blues electric guitar from Elliot Clear.

The past due Soviet Union had not been renowned because of its contributions to jazz, nonetheless it did produce at least one notable group, for in the ’70s and ’80s the Ganelin Trio was arguably the world’s greatest free jazz ensemble. Made up of pianist Vyacheslav Ganelin, saxophonist Vladimir Chekasin, …

A strikingly gifted guitarist whose repertoire works the gamut from traditionalist root base music to jagged free of charge improvisation, Marc Ribot has liked a successful profession as an in-demand sideman in addition to leading numerous saving and performing tasks of his very own. Ribot was created in Newark, NJ …

“The Sci-Fi Music group,” Detroit’s leading creative improvised music group. With three horns and two on tempo. They’re not scared to lower loose.

Tuba participant Marcus Rojas has played in a multitude of music contexts, with performers which range from the American Symphony Orchestra to reggae’s Sly & Robbie; from jazz great Lionel Hampton to extremist musician Foetus. Rojas provides performed in Henry Threadgill’s ensembles through the entire ’90s and is a familiar …

Probably the to begin several saxophone-only ensembles who proliferated in jazz after 1975, the WSQ is obviously probably the most commercially (and, probably, the most artistically) successful. Needless to say, commercial success is normally a relative part of jazz, particularly when one is talking about an avant-garde group. But unlike …

A virtual reincarnation of Ornette Coleman’s first ensembles, the cooperative Aged and New Dreams brought collectively trumpeter Don Cherry, tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Ed Blackwell to reinterpret the master’s early repertoire. By enough time their 1st album premiered in 1978, ECM’s Aged and New Dreams, …

This group was a popular of several avant-garde jazz fans within the ’70s, attractive to a generation of listeners who was simply weaned on Frank Zappa, some only temporarily lured into his camp from the intoxicating sound of electric violin soloists such as for example Jean-Luc Ponty and Sugarcane Harris. …

Naked Town was something of the avant-rock/free of charge jazz NY supergroup in the past due ’80s and early ’90s, offering an all-star cast of NY jazz experimentalists and led with the most-famous downtown musician of these all, John Zorn. Made up of Zorn on alto sax, Wayne Horvitz on …

Based in NY, multi-reedist Roy Nathanson is certainly co-founder of Jazz Passengers, works in Matt Darriau’s Paradox Trio, and was once an associate of John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards. Nathanson examined saxophone with Jimmy Heath, Joe Allard and Les Scott, and performing with Mira Rostova. Nathanson provides acted in movies by …