Results for "Karen Borca"

Karen Borca

Born: September 5, 1948

Jazz At Atlas Kicks Off 2019 Season With Thumbscrew

March 9, 2019

This cooperative project features a trio of gifted musicians and composers—guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Michael Formanek and drummer/percussionist Tomas Fujiwara—performing their own compositions and selected standards with an exacting prowess wed to a liberated swing that is glorious to behold. Thumbscrew performs on Saturday, March 30 at 8 PM. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 ...

Katherine Young's Pretty Monsters: Pretty Monsters

by Troy Collins
December 1, 2012

Rarely used in jazz and creative improvised music (except by individualists like Karen Borca), the unwieldy bassoon is commonly relegated to the role of a doubling horn, sparingly employed by eclectic multi-instrumentalists like Joseph Jarman and Yusef Lateef for its unusual tonal color. Brooklyn-based bassoonist Katherine Young transcends the instrument's reputation with a shrewd combination of ...

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 ...

Paul F. Murphy: Playing Universally

by Dominic Fragman
April 28, 2010

Legendary drummer Paul F. Murphy has been involved with the high end of improvised music since the mid-1970s in San Francisco. He is most closely associated with the avant-garde of the '70s, '80s and '90s as a 12-year member of alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons' band and a leader of several of his own groups, including Trio ...

Simple... Isn't It?

By Earth People

Label: Undivided Vision
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Birthright
2. Bojangles
3. Simple ... Isn't It??
4. Breaking the Malaise

Waking the Living

By Earth People

Label: Undivided Vision
Released: 2001
Track listing: 1. Earth People (expressions in Five Episodes) (36:25)
2. Don't Think About It (28:59)