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Jazz and the Spoken Word

by Jerome Wilson
March 18, 2022

This show examines the intersection of jazz and various forms of the spoken word, including rap, beat-era jive and classic poets like Langston Hughes, W. B. Yeats, and Walt Whitman. The musicians interpreting these works include Babs Gonzales, David Murray, Christine Tobin, and Deborah Harry & the Jazz Passengers. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I ...

George Hurd: Navigation Without Numbers

by Karl Ackermann
March 3, 2016

jny: San Francisco-based composer George Hurd doesn't subscribe to any of the monolithic definitions around musical categories. In his own creative process he incorporates classical chamber music, home-grown electronics and acoustic instrumentation. Performed by the rotation of players making up his namesake ensemble, his debut album, Navigation Without Numbers, presents us with eleven Hurd original compositions ...

Two Sides of Ben Goldberg

by Troy Collins
February 18, 2013

Developments in the evolving recording industry have inspired an increasing number of musicians to form their own labels. San Francisco-based clarinetist Ben Goldberg, a veteran of the 1990s Downtown New York scene, joined many of his peers in 2009 with Go Home, the inaugural release of his BAG Production Records imprint. Goldberg's prior efforts, issued by ...

The Sad Machinery of Spring

By Tin Hat

Label: Hannibal Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Old World; The Secret Fluid of Dusk; Blind Paper Dragon; Dionysus; Daisy Bell; Drawing Lessons; The Book; Dead Season; Black Thursday; The Tailor's Dummies; Dionysus II; The Land of Perpetual Sleep; Janissary Band; The Comet; Intractable.

Tin Hat: The Sad Machinery of Spring

by Kurt Gottschalk
March 9, 2007

The fact that Tin Hat is no longer a trio and that founding member Rob Burger left the group in 2004 shouldn't be such a jolt. The band has always expanded and shape-shifted, working with such guests as Tom Waits and Willie Nelson on previous records. But for their fifth release, they've formally dropped the “trio ...

Tin Hat: The Sad Machinery of Spring

by Matt Cibula
March 4, 2007

Just about everyone who's been following the band formerly known as the Tin Hat Trio has been excited about this album. We all wanted to know how Mark Orton and Carla Kihlstedt would carry on after co-founder Rob Burger flew the coop. Turned out the answer was “Expand and beef up." Clarinet madman Ben Goldberg had ...

The Sad Machinery of Spring

By Tin Hat

Label: Hannibal Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Old World; The Secret FLuid of Dusk; Blind Paper Dragon; Dionysus; Daisy Bell; Drawing Lessons; The Book; Dead Season; Black Thursday; The Tailor's Dummies; Dionysus II; The Land of Perpetual Sleep; Janissary Band; The Comet; Intractable.