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Allen Shawn / Michael Bisio: Improvisations
by Mark Corroto
In this new world of fake news and alternative facts, you may like to challenge the title of pianist Allen Shawn and bassist Michael Bisio's Improvisations. This music is so properly presented, it has all the elements of composed music. To acknowledge these eight tracks as instant composing is sort of mind-blowing. Those immersed in the improvised jazz world will know Bisio's work in pianist Matthew Shipp's trio. Also in duo, Shipp/Bisio released the two excellent discs Floating ...
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by Karl Ackermann
Classical pianist and composer Allen Shawn is not a familiar name in the jazz world. He comes from a well-known artistic family, the son of long-time The New Yorker editor William Shawn, and brother of actor and playwright Wallace Shawn. Allen Shawn received degrees from Harvard and Columbia Universities and teaches at Bennington College in Vermont. In that academic setting, Shawn would come to know fellow teacher and bassist Michael Bisio. Their duo project, Improvisations, is an unusual undertaking for ...
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