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Guitarist Todd Clouser is a forward-thinking and adventurous musician using a bent toward contemporary creative jazz and genre-bending varieties of improvised music. A Minneapolis indigenous, Clouser went to Berklee University of Music in Boston, and he toured as person in the rock-band 4 Letter Guy. Around 2006, Clouser relocated to …

Snub Mosley could very well be most widely known for having invented the “slip saxophone,” a horn that had both a saxophone mouthpiece and a slip; his 1940 documenting “THE PERSON using the Funny Small Horn” showcases his unusual axe a little. Mostly, nevertheless, Mosley produced his living like a …

Norwegian ensemble Farmers Market play a variety of jazz, Bulgarian folk, bluegrass, pop, and rock. Produced in 1991 as the associates were all learning jazz on the Conservatory of Trondheim, Farmers Marketplace eventually still left their free of charge jazz root base behind for a far more eclectic, globe music …

Spanish Fly can be an interesting grouping of 3 of downtown N.Con.C. as well as the Knitting Stock scene’s outstanding music artists. The group’s instrumentation is normally of immediate curiosity with Marcus Rojas’ tuba portion as bass as well as the trumpet of Steven Bernstein and “prepared slide- electric guitar” …

This instigator from the Italian Instabile Orchestra was created in 1951 in Ruvo, a little town in Apulia where he still lives and teaches. Pino Minafra sang in the cathedral choir prior to starting over the trumpet in his hometown’s brass music group. He then proved helpful inside a traditional …

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, …

Among the primary associates of seminal downtown NY group the Lounge Lizards from the first 1980s, Evan Lurie is actually a technically proficient, classically-trained pianist and occasional keyboardist. Although his sibling, Lounge Lizards head John Lurie, obtained even more noteriety in the music and indie film worlds, Evan Lurie is …

Sex Mob began merely being a environment to feature the slip trumpet of innovator Steven Bernstein, but is continuing to grow into a music group with a much bigger mission: to place the fun back jazz music. After assembling the music group (Bernstein, slip trumpet; Briggan Krauss, alto sax; Tony …

Jazz saxophonist Michael Blake was an associate from the the Lounge Lizards from 1990 on, and kept dynamic in a number of additional N.Con.C.-centered innovative jazz projects. After he was created in Montreal in 1964, his family members relocated to California for a short while, then settled back Canada, in …

Violinist, composer, improviser, bandleader, and (yes) singer Jenny Scheinman is a main drive in avant jazz and roots-oriented creative music in both coasts of America, building a particular influence within the Brooklyn creative jazz picture following her entrance within the borough in the West Coastline in 1999. She produced weekly …