Avant Jazz: Past

Min Xiao-Fen is a Chinese pipa player and vocalist, known for her work in traditional Chinese music, contemporary classical music, and jazz. […]

Drummer Bob Moses with jazz ensemble. Moses played with Roland Kirk in 1964–65 while he was still a teenager. In 1966 he and Larry Coryell […]

Mephista: Sylvie Courvoisier, piano; Susie Ibarra, percussion; Ikue Mori, electronics in a concert produced by Roulette at the Leonard Nimoy […]

Matthew Shipp Trio, part of the Roulette Concert Series held at the Thalia Theater in Manhattan. (The Trio was announced as Shipp on piano, […]

Howie Smith ensemble at Thalia Theater as part of the Roulette series in a double bill with Matthew Shipp Trio (see separate entry). Howie […]

The passion and fire of Charles Burnham’s violin has graced the work of many: Cassandra Wilson, James “Blood” Ulmer, Steven […]

Mark Dresser and Susie Ibarra present duo project Tone Time. The contrabassist and percussionist are two powerful composer/performers who have […]

“A monumental, minimalist manifesto experience of extreme music with continuous, slowly moving, ever changing, hypnotic double bass and […]

“Desiccant incorporates live live electronics, live instruments, computer instruments, musique concrete, dynamic and kinetic sound […]

“From breath to breeze to squall to blizzard to hurrican and back. The supergroup born in the 800s sails into the new century and new […]