Avant Jazz: Past

Magda Mayas is a pianist and curator currently based in Berlin, Germany. Mayas studied jazz and improvisation at Universität der Künste, […]

A ‘Jam Band’ that casts its net wide but keeps a sharp focus. “What King Crimson did for rock and Voivod did for heavy metal, […]

Steve Swell’s Nation Of We Saco Yasuma, Will Connell, Ras Moshe, Sabir Mateen, Darius Jones—Reeds Flip Barnes, Matt LaVelle, Roy […]

Darius Jones, is an alto saxophonist, composer, and producer. He joined the New York music community in 2005, after living and studying in […]

Peter Evans has been a member of the New York musical community since 2003, when he moved to the city after graduating Oberlin Conservatory. […]

Good for Cows began as a duo in 1999 when Devin Hoff (string bass) and Ches Smith (drums) would meet regularly to work on musical ideas from a […]

Satoko Fujii Min-Yoh Ensemble Natsuki Tamura – trumpet Curtis Hasselbring – trombone Andrea Parkins – accordion Satoko Fujii […]

Composer Marina Rosenfeld is joined by Raz Mesinai (computer) in a presentation of new works for her “phonographic” speaker: a […]

The duo of violist Tanya Kalmanovitch and pianist Myra Melford came together by accident. Both were performing separately at the 2003 Guelph […]

“Wu-Wei” Ben Gerstein (trombone), Cory Smythe (piano), Christopher Tordini (bass), Tyshawn Sorey (trombone, percussion) Wu-Wei is a […]