Avant Jazz: Past

Origami, an exploration into unsuspected emotional and expressive possibilities of the voice by using an exquisitely detailed collection of […]

The Improvising Chamber Ensemble is Dave Taylor, bass trombone; Vincent Chancey, French horn; Howard Johnson, bass clarinet; Jay Rosen, drums; […]

The composer’s Trio Pianissimo: Balance, with Steve Hunt, piano; John Lockwood, bass; and Bendian on drums and percussion. Bendian has […]

Twisted Tributes and Transformations, a series of new solo contrabass pieces exploring ideas of transformation and presented in the context of […]

A new trio with the composer on sax and synthesizer, Mari Kimura on violin and Gerry Hemingway on percussion performing all new music in which […]

The Implicate Order: Ursel Schlicht, piano and Steve Swell, trombone, compositions and improvisations. Unified Theory of Sound: Jemeel Moondoc, […]

New compositions, collaborations and free improvisations by an ensemble featuring guitarist Scott Fields of Madison, Wisconsin, Los […]

The composer on alto and baritone sax with his Quartet: Roy Campbell (trumpet), Andrew Bemke (piano) and Geoff Mann (drums). About this music […]

Pianist Greene and bassist Dresser augment their Duo with guest Perry Robinson on clarinet in a concert of Music Without Isms. The concert […]

Jenkins2 is a dramatic cantata for live performance drawing on the artists’ personal and familial biographies: African American and Welsh. […]