Tag Archives: Phillip Johnston

Trombonist, composer, and bandleader Claude St-Jean is component of a era of performers who emerged in the Montréal creative music picture in the mid-’90s, in the wake of previous musicians such as for example Jean Derome, René Lussier, André Duchesne, and Robert Marcel Lepage, who had begun saving in the …

The twisted avant-jazz of Phillip Johnston first reared its head through the early ’80s, when the composer and saxophonist was a staple from the downtown NEW YORK underground music scene. There, he performed with a number of performers both in and from the jazz community, included in this John Zorn, …

Percussionist and composer Kevin Norton offers performed with lots of the main improvisers and contemporary composers such as for example Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith, Tag Dresser and Fred Lonberg-Holm, furthermore to dealing with jazz and klezmer music artists such as for example Slam Stewart and Andy Statman. Norton gained his …

The Microscopic Septet were probably one of the most distinctive jazz ensembles in NY through the ’80s and early ’90s. Merging a like for the big-band audio with a intensifying approach to agreement and structure, the Micros were able to end up being nostalgic and futuristic at exactly the same …

NY trumpeter Steven Bernstein was music director of John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, co-leader from the trio Spanish Take a flight, and served as arranger and leader from the Kansas Town Band (in the Robert Altman film and Verve All-Stars Tour). Bernstein after that started leading his very own groupings and …

Known for leading various incarnations of his avant chamberesque folk-country clothing Defeat Circus, Florida-born, Boston-based trumpeter (actually, multi-instrumentalist), bandleader, composer, arranger, and singer/songwriter Brian Carpenter can be the principal generating force behind the Ghost Teach Orchestra, restoring alive a few of the most ebullient — and frequently underappreciated as well …

Created in 2006, the Ghent-based creative jazz quintet Wofo (“With others, for others”) is basically a car for carrying out and documenting the compositions of bassist Xavier Verhelst, who performs electric six-string bass within the band’s albums but who could be noticed in photographs with a typical acoustic straight. The …