Improvisation: Past

The trombonist (and didjeridu-er) with Bill Frisell on electric guitar and Ikue Mori on drum machine and drums in a mumbo jumbovian* trio. Solo, […]

Solo Contrabass improvisations by the German free jazz double bassist and tubist. Peter Kowald was part of the European tour undertaken by […]

Improving trio for voice, sax, percussion, guitar, and other surprises. Tenko is a Japanese musician and improviser. She started music in 1979 […]

Osborn’s high and low-tech electronics using computer, french horn, and naked guitar, plus plugged-in drummer Pugliese’s grooves in […]

Two shows, this night only at 9:00 and 11:00. From John Zorn’s project called New Traditions of East Asian Bar Bands: “Hu Die” […]

The trombonist in a trio using instruments of Eastern and Western origin including didjeridu, sax, wooden flutes, strings, and percussion, with […]

“Upside Down Bridges 1988” for piano solo, a goodbye to ancient assumptions about fingers and ears.

Composer/conductor with ABANDON ensemble and architect Kelvin Ono in new works for mixed septet, lights, and slides. To see full program, click […]

“From Low Hz. to High KHz”, compositions and improvisations for bass and brass.

Alto sax sizzling smoothly in a quartet with Bern Nix on guitar, William Parker on bass, and Rashied Ali on drums. Photography by Barbara Mensch […]