Tag Archives: Michael Zerang

A self-described “Chicago-born Assyrian percussionist,” Michael Zerang’s set of collaborators is a virtual compendium from the Windy City’s free of charge jazz/improv community, including saxophonists Fred Anderson and Ken Vandermark, cellist Fred Longberg-Holm, drummer Hamid Drake, and bassist Kent Kessler, amongst others. A few of his many overall performance vehicles …

Almost four decades after his death, the legacy of Albert Ayler is simply — various reed-biting aural contortionists bent in exploiting the saxophone’s propensity to make sounds that resemble a human scream. Many such players, struggling to play anything resembling a coherent melody, rely rather on the severe manifestations from …