Improvisation: Past

Original compositions and arrangements of Bosnian, Estonian, Yiddish, Indonesian and Beefheart. Theremin and voice become MIDI triggers for […]

“New Age East West Harmolodic Opera Groove” by Japanese-born vocalist/improvisor Mari Okubo integrates elements of various kinds of […]

“Waiting for Afghani Women” and other works and improvisations by the California vocalist and composer with her impressive array of […]

New and unusual instruments, technology and music with mixed media. Odd Man Out, the unrecognizable, the faintly evocative, the overt quotation […]

Goldstein, the violinist who “re-invented the violin” (as in Sounding the New Violin), and Kaul, the percussionist of L’Art […]

Unrestricted, the remarkable Japanese jazz pianist, Masahiko Sato (whose credits include Nancy Wilson, Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez and more) becomes […]

How Many? Natsuki Tamura (trumpet) and Satoko Fujii (piano) create music distinctive in character and surprising in form, at times emerging from […]

“Duo, a freewheeling and explosive alliance of two venerable composer/performers, pianist Borah Bergman and saxophonist Oliver Lake. Using […]

“Old Rosebud, the trombonist engages in the pursuit and irradiation of musical enigmas, complicated only by the inevitable creation of […]

“Songs and Views of the Digital Garden is the solo performance of Franziska Baumann (voice, flute, electronic) in which she presents her […]