Avant Jazz: Past

Musical ideas merge from four directions by four creative musicians all moving in four directions.

Yajna is a solo vocal ritual, a sacrifice to the metaphoric sacred fire to purge the dark energies of this era.

World premiere of “The Goddess," a 1934 Chinese silent film with a live score by Min Xiao-Fen and Rez Abbasi.

The story of two musicians (French horn + washboard), both born on February 4th, punctuated by family tales rooted in research and DNA testing.

Avant-garde guitarist Gary Lucas accompanies the short films of queer cinema artist Curtis Harrington.

A follow up to 2014’s The Oversoul Manual, Samesoul Maker is a new composition for male voices in an invented language.

US premiere performances of commissioned pieces by George Lewis, Oxana Omelchuk, and more from Austria's Studio Dan.

New work from Adam Rudolph’s Go: Organic Orchestra, a 21st century vision of a "future orchestra."

Sleepwalker 3 for piano, violin, bass, and electronics combines dub, contemporary composition with an emphasis on bass sounds.

With SuperBigmouth, Chris Lightcap combines and composes for his two working groups, Bigmouth and Superette.