Jazz Articles about Art Music

Art Music Ensemble: Look Both Ways

by C. Michael Bailey
December 1, 2000

Postmodern Musings. A couple of months ago, I reviewed Luciano Berio's complete Sequenzas on Deutsche Gramophone (part of DG's 21st Century Series). I noted there to be a valid comparison between certain Jazz genres (Free Jazz and Avant-garde) and Postmodern Classical Music. David Sherr and his Art Music Ensemble blur the line further with Look Both Ways, a survey of selected Berio Sequenzas coupled with Sherr compositions inspired by them.

Sherr opens this disc with Berio's Sequenza for Flute, composed ...