Avant Jazz: Past

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 […]

“CRY OF THE NOMAD” Jen Shyu, composition, vocals, dance Jennifer Choi, violin Rubin Kodheli, cello Mat Maneri, viola Thomas Morgan, […]

Carl Maguire, Oscar Noriega, Dan Weiss, Stephanie Griffen, John Hebert Carl Maguire grew up in Madison, Wisconsin where his early piano teachers […]

“LONELYVILLE” featuring Ikue Mori, Mark Feldman, Vincent Courtois, and Gerald Cleaver Composer/pianist, Sylvie Courvoisier was born […]

Lenore Von Stein (composition/direction/voice) is the artistic director of 1687, Inc. Von Stein has worked with be-bop, free jazz, classical, […]