Avant Jazz: Past

Nate Wooley Nate Wooley is one of a handful of trumpet players redefining the instrument’s role and technique. He has used the solo idiom […]

Jeff Arnal (percussion) and Gordon Beeferman (piano) synthesize avant-garde jazz/improv and contemporary classical traditions of the 20th […]

WOLLESONIC is an acousto-electro multi-instrumental vibrational outfit of skilled musicians adept at spontaneity and sonics, featuring Kenny […]

The Ullmann/Swell 4 is Gebhard Ullmann (winds,) trombonist Steve Swell, bassist Hill Greene & legendary drummer Barry Altschul. This […]

“One of the alto saxophone’s harshest poets,” (The Boston Phoenix) Wally Shoup plays unfettered, emotion-laden alto sax. His […]

Cellists Michelle Kinney and Jacqueline Ferrier-Ultan have been exploring their collaboration together since 2002 when they discovered a […]

Saxophonist/composer Matana Roberts presents CoinCoin:Installation 1, the first performance of her in-progress musical narrative, which explores […]

Ben Neill (mutantrumpet/electronics,) with John Conte (bass) & Jim Mussen (drums,) presents XIX, a concert of music and interactive video […]

“K2K” Over some 30 years, the unpredictable composer/pianist Kirk Nurock has orchestrated for Dizzy Gillespie, Leonard Bernstein, […]

Composer and hyperpianist Denman Maroney presents works of the seventies, eighties, nineties and aughties (including some world and New York […]