Jazz Articles about Anthony Coleman

Anthony Coleman: Shmutsige Magnaten: Coleman Plays Gebirtig

by Kurt Gottschalk
May 21, 2006

Mordechai Gebirtig was, as Anthony Coleman explained at a performance of the composer's work at The Stone in February, a writer of Polish folk songs evoking the hardships of Jewish life in the '30s and '40s. More a poet than a musician, Gebirtig would often sing or hum melodies to others to score. Coleman has given programs of Gebirtig's work at festivals in New York and Europe, and he broke out the songbook again at The Stone.

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Anthony Coleman: Ambiguity is a Richness

by AAJ Staff
April 2, 2005

By Anthony Coleman Tradition. Sometimes I really don't like that word. It feels so limiting, conservative. And so much current discourse revolves around it. And we've seen something many of us hoped for: “jazz", or whatever you want to call it, put on the pedestal with the other great music of the world. Why aren't we happy? In my musical world there are so many influences. Improvisation is central, but not always present, and certainly ...