Jim Staley: Past

Pianist Bergman is a kinetic mixture of Bud Powell, Thelonius Monk, and Charles Ives and one of the most ambidextrous pianists in circulation. […]

Lesing Order is Unfortunate, an untethered improvisational setting for real-time video imaging and sound. Staley is a virtuoso of the delicious, […]

Improvisations for liberated trombone and occupied percussion. Mori received a 1999 Award of Distinction in Prix Ars Electronica’s Digital […]

The trombone rombone ombone mbone bone one ne e en eno enob enobm enobmo enobmor enobmort is the beginning.   Jim Staley, […]

Janene Higgins, video and Jim Staley, trombone (aka Old Rosebud) with Denman Maroney, piano; CK Noyes, drums & electronics; and Ikue Mori, […]

See the man think through his trombone. See him lose his thoughts and merge with his trombone. See the trombone begin to think for itself. New […]

Three extremists from the world of extended sound – percussionist Butters, clarinetist Mandat and trombonist Staley – present their […]

Improvisations for liberated trombone, psycho-electric percussion and software-driven toadstool. Listen to what the doormouse said…

Macbeth II (1888) will be the place to begin for this spectacular assemblage of improvising soundists: Phoebe Legere, vocalist, poet, pianist, […]