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Rob Burger was the accordionist within the chamber jazz group Tin Head wear Trio and it has toured with Costs Frisell, Don Byron, and Joey Baron, and appeared on Frisell’s Stories from the Much Aspect soundtrack. Burger examined traditional piano at Juilliard and explored different improvisational designs at the School …

Explorers of contemporary creative jazz, avant jazz, and considerably more, the Claudia Quintet were formed in 1997 by drummer/composer John Hollenbeck, who was simply less than wanting to give up a preexisting weekly gig in alt.coffee, an online café in NY City’s East Community. Hollenbeck, accordionist Ted Reichman, and bassist …

NY City-based septet the Cellar and Stage describe their music as “garage-chamber,” but that descriptor may not do justice towards the group’s wide-ranging meld of designs. The band’s co-leaders, drummer/manufacturer Joseph Branciforte and guitarist Christopher Botta, pull from electronica, contemporary classical structure, fusion jazz, avant-prog rock and roll, and ambient …

Portland, Oregon-based creative jazz clothing the Ocular Concern began like a trio featuring Andrew Oliver (co-founder from the Portland Jazz Composers Outfit in 2007) on electric powered piano, Dan Duval on guitar, and Stephen Pancerev on drums. The group produced its documenting debut with an eponymously entitled EP — offering …

Bassist and multi-instrumentalist Adam Ilgenfritz was created in Monroe, Michigan, November 16, 1978. Originally he was affected by non–musical performers as defeat poets William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, authors Herman Hesse, Franz Kafka, Ken Wilber and Thich Nhat Hanh, comic publication performers Matt Wagner and Frank Miller, visible performers Egon …