I perform and write about jazz and improvisational music. I am primarily interested in post bop experimentations, specifically located within transnational contexts and encompassing the genres of free jazz, free improv, electronic, aleatory, and experimental music. I'm also interested in the broader circulations of these musics within the popular unpopular (including post-rock, punk, Noise, death metal, industrial, hip hop, etc.) and how musicians, critics, and audiences think through these kinds of musical border crossings. In addition to my journalism work, I'm a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology working on the above as well as topics including music and war, the legacy of punk, American murder ballads, and gender and music.

Home
Fitchburg, WI

My Desert Island Picks

1. Don Cherry - Mu (Parts One and Two)
2. Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
3. John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
4. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
5. Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
6. Paul Motian - Trioism
7. Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower
8. Tomasz Stanko - Leosia
9. Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come
10. Anton Webern - Complete Works, Opp. 1-31 (Conducted by Boulez)
11. Wire - Pink Flag
12. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
13. Slayer - Reign in Blood

What I'm Listening To Now (As of 2009-03-30)

1. Count Basie - The Complete Decca Recordings
2. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
3. James "Blood" Ulmer - Odyssey
4. Coleman Hawkins - Body and Soul

Favorite Jazz Genres
Ambient
Beyond Jazz
Dixieland/New Orleans/Swing
Electronica
Free Improvisation/Avant-Garde
Fringes of Jazz
Fusion/Progressive Rock
Modern Jazz
R&B/Soul