Results for "John Voigt"

John Voigt

Musician (bass, spoken word, performance art). Occasional performances with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Keith Jarrett, Bill T. Jones, Captain Kangaroo, Tuli Kupferberg (Fuggs), Jemeel Moondoc, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), and in Broadway musicals. Music educational and biographical essays published in leading reference books and journals. Appearances on nationwide television and radio. Taught privately—and at The Boston Conservatory, Berklee, Massachusetts College of Art, Northeastern University, and Boston Arts Academy. Served on the Board of Overseers at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. Twelve recordings, one video released.

Monet's Haystacks

By Josh Rosen

Label: Ziggle Zaggle Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Grainstack in Sunshine, 1891; Haystack, Morning Snow Effect, 1891; Wheatstacks (Sunset, Snow Effect) 1890-91; Grainstack (Sunset) 1891.

Josh Rosen

Josh Rosen has performed/recorded with jazz greats Joe Lovano, Mick Goodrick, George Garzone, Greg Hopkins, Bob Moses, Stan Strickland, Phil Grenadier, John Lockwood, Dennis Irwin, Steve Slagle, Bennie Wallace, George Schuller, The Either/Orchestra and Ethiopian master musicians Mulatu Astake and Mahmoud Ahmed, among many others.

A pianist and prolific composer, Rosen has released seven albums. “American Waltz” features jazz masters George Garzone and Mick Goodrick.

With Boston legend Stan Strickland (woodwinds, vocals), Rosen has produced three stellar albums: the intimate duo Instinct, Seasons (a jazz quartet; 2019) and Three Moments, a brilliant improvisational trio with master percussionist Ra Kalam Bob Moses.

Sunset With Susan

March 3, 2019

Album: The Music of Paul Motian
By John Voigt
Label: Ziggle Zaggle Music
Released: 2018
Duration: 02:50

The Music of Paul Motian

By John Voigt

Label: Ziggle Zaggle Music
Released: 2018
Track listing: 1 "The Trick is..."; 2 One Time Out; 3 Cathedral Song; 4 Kalypso; 5 Jack of Clubs; 6 Johnny Broken Wing; 7 Story Teller; 8 Once Around the Park; 9 Dance; 10 Victoria; 11 "Playing the Music Is..."; 12 Points In Space; 13 Chasing the Swamp Woman; 14 Accidents On Purpose; 15 Cousin Hildegard; 16 Nica's Cat; 17 Tentative Bipolar; 18 Sunset With Susan.

Various Artists: The Boston Creative Jazz Scene 1970-1983

by Dave Wayne
February 4, 2016

Though New York City remains first and foremost in everyone's mind as the “Jazz Capital of the World," aficionados know that many other cities in the US and abroad support significant and artistically important jazz communities. Boston looms large among the most important jazz cities, worldwide. The birthplace of Harry Carney, Roy Haynes, George Russell, Sonny ...

Bill Elgart is Hale and Hearty on Evil Rabbit Records

November 22, 2011

Evil Rabbit is beyond pleased to announce the release of its 18th recording, Modern Primitive, with legendary expatriate American drummer Bill Elgart joined by Jan Klare upending alto sax, clarinet and flute, Jeff Platz getting his guitars ashes hauled and Meinrad Kneer working a double bass til it's near ready for kindling across 9 compositions and ...

Contemplation of the Blue Egyptian Goddess

May 23, 2011

Album: Outsider Bass
By John Voigt
Label: Moonfood Records. Free Download: https://archive.org/details/cd_outsider-bass_john-voigt
Released: 1993
Duration: 17:56

Eric Zinman: The Piano as Endangered Species

by Brian Wrentham
August 31, 2010

For over twenty years, pianist/composer Eric Zinman has been crafting his own approach to his instrument, since meeting trumpeter Bill Dixon in the '80s. He views himself as an ensemble player, who plays to include; in addition to his own writing, his trio disc, Eric Zinman Ensemble (Cadence, 2006), features short pieces by John Voigt, Laurence ...

Garrison Fewell: Variable Density Sound Orchestra

by Lyn Horton
December 10, 2009

For the descriptively-titled Variable Density Sound Orchestra, guitarist Garrison Fewell has assembled a group whose members expertly develop the thematic content central to the pieces on the album. All but one are composed by Fewell, the disc closing with Butch Morris' “Namthini's Shadow." Trumpeter Roy Campbell, Jr. plays with Fewell for the first time here, the ...