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This music is known as free improvisation, a music without known structure or mainstream visibility, bold enough to be uncomfortable with itself. This website opens the door to those who want to look in on this playing and some of the thought behind it. It is another room in the house, where questions are raised about the fundamental direction of our music, and every answer provokes further questions, even doubts. The site is not just for the devotees of this obscure music, but for all who love music that creates itself. We are searching for what will open us to the unknown that lies within, which includes but is not limited to the musical direction we have chosen.
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The Free Musics by Jack Wright
by Daniel Barbiero
The Free Musics Jack Wright 316 Pages ISBN: 1537777246 Spring Garden Music Editions 2017 Saxophonist Jack Wright's first encounter with free jazz occurred in 1967, when a chance meeting with Charlie Haden resulted in Wright's being invited to see Haden play with Ornette Coleman. Wright, who had been a conventional jazz saxophonist, describes the music as having struck him as chaotic" and the experience as having been traumatic." Nevertheless, five years later he ...
read moreJack Wright/John M. Bennett/Ben Bennett: Rotty What
by Mark Corroto
Note to my editor: do not attempt a spell check of this review, as much of the language presented on Rotty What won't be found in any modern language dictionaries.
That's the ticket here: full frontal nudity. Well, substitute spontaneous combustion for the naked parts, and you have an idea what you are in for when poet/mail artist/writer/publisher John Bennett collaborates with saxophonist Jack Wright. This self-produced CD-R documents a mini-tour and performance by the pair with John's son, Ben ...
read moreJack Wright: The Indeterminate Existence
by Mark Corroto
The liner notes to The Indeterminate Existence, penned by Jack Wright, indicate that he no longer plays music like what can be heard on these seven tracks from the years 1988-98. While I might disagree, I will note that any occasion Wright steps onto a stage, you will hear something new, conceived and created in that moment.
The seven solo pieces Wright refers to here are all physically demanding note-after-note marathons. What Wright refers to in his liner ...
read moreJack Wright: As Is: Solos from Beirut and Barcelona
by Mark Corroto
Dear Mr. Jack Wright,
Please don't sell out your ideals for a quick dollar. With the increasing interest in free jazz improvisation, don't license you music to club DJs for a remix project. If you get an offer, don't do a standards record, a Jack Wright With Strings recording, or a duet session with Tony Bennett, Bono or David Hasselhoff.
Signed, A dedicated listener
Certainly I jest, but indeed the global market ...
read moreJack Wright / Carol Genetti / Jon Mueller: Nom Tom
by Mark Corroto
Jack Wright continues to be the greatest free jazz saxophonist you've never heard. But that is his calling, not his choice. He travels the land playing for audiences of two to two hundred, can teach a very inspired history lesson, or scramble some eggs. It makes no difference to him. Wright chose his path long ago, placing creativity above popularity, sound generation above melody.
Recently, more artists have come forward with similar ideas of improvisation. Together they are ...
read moreJack Wright & Bob Falesch: Clang
by Mark Corroto
With much admiration, I have followed the very uncompromising career of saxophonist Jack Wright. His dedication to his outer-fringes (not even THE outer-fringes) of music have corralled his music into the margins, the proverbial footnote-to-the-footnote of history. Jack explores the music beyond that of Evan Parker and Mats Gustafsson. He reinvents the honk, the squeak, and the growl as musical conversations. Mr. Wright’s performances are frequently room clearing, or just as often standing ovations. His music is heady, intellectual, coarse ...
read moreJack Wright: Places To Go
by Mark Corroto
By Anthony Braxton’s definition, Jack Wright is a very dangerous man. Not danger as in hazards, but dangerous as in possibilities. Braxton classifies musicians as traditionalists (retro-New Orleans), stylists (all those hard-bop clones), and restructuralists (Charlie Parker, John Cage, Sun Ra). The restructualist Wright, like Parker in his time, is walking the precipice of creative music. Working new sonic boundaries, not readily acceptable to the average listener (or even average jazz listener). Wright works on the outer edge of improvisation, ...
read moreJazz This Week: Peter Martin and Inner Circle, Jack Wright, Rick Haydon, Jazz St. Louis' Annual Gala, Delfeayo Marsalis, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
There's lots going on this week with jazz and creative music in St. Louis, and due to impending deadlines, not much time to tell you about it. So, without further preamble, let's go to the highlights.... Tonight, the free improvising saxophonist Jack Wright returns to St. Louis for the first time in four years for a performance at Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center. Always eager to collaborate with other improvisors, Wright will be aided and abetted by saxophonist Dave Stone and ...
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Jack Wright to Perform Thursday, March 8 at Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Saxophonist Jack Wright is returning to St. Louis to perform at 8:00 p.m. Thursday, March 8 at Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center. The free-improvising reedman (and occasional pianist) has played here a number of times since the mid-1990s, both at LNAC and at various venues under the auspices of New Music Circle, but this will be his first show in St. Louis in four years. Opening the concert will be epicycle, aka LNAC's head honcho Mark Sarich. Tickets for Jack Wright ...
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Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone / Jack Wright Quartet @ Lilypad on April 16
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All About Jazz
Thursday - April 16th The Lily Pad 1353 Cambridge Street - Inman Square Cambridge MA 7 PM MARY HALVORSON & JESSICA PAVONE Mary Halvorson - guitar/vocals Jessica Pavone - viola/vocals The guitarist Mary Halvorson and the violist Jessica Pavone have worked together in ensembles led by the avant-garde eminence Anthony Braxton, and separately in a wide array of upstart new-music groups. As an acoustic duo they produce something distinct and ...
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Ryan Snow Presents "Basement Music Series" with Peter Evans, Adam Caine, Jack Wright on February 27 & 28
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All About Jazz
An ongoing series at: Snow's Basement 796 Grand St. #1 Brooklyn NY 11211
Friday, February 27th
Peter Evans Solo Trumpet
Adam Caine Trio (Caine guitar, Tom Blancarte bass, John Wagner drums) Jason Nazary Solo Laptop
Saturday, February 28th
Jack Wright Trio (Wright sax, Reuben Radding bass, Andrew Drury drums)
Ben Gerstein (trombone) Mat Maneri (viola) Duo
Nick Lyons Solo Saxophone
All shows start at 9pm and have a $5 suggested donation. BYOB. ...
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