Jazz Articles about Beth Custer

About Beth Custer

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Will Bernard & Beth Custer: Sky

by Vincenzo Roggero
April 30, 2024

Quello tra Will Bernard e Beth Custer è un sodalizio che dura da decenni come ben dimostrano le due foto--una giovanile e una attuale--che occupano la seconda e la quarta di copertina di Sky , la loro ultima fatica discografica. Lui suona la chitarra elettrica e acustica, ha radici musicali nella San Francisco Bay Area, studi di musica classica, jazz, passioni per il funk di New Orleans e per il downtown newyorkese. Lei suona i clarinetti nei ...

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Will Bernard & Beth Custer: Sky

by Mark Corroto
August 16, 2023

Luckily there are no record producers or record executives for creative music these days, because clarinetist Beth Custer and guitarist Will Bernard would be out of a job or, at least, a recording contract. That is because neither of the artists' interests can be categorized, pigeonholed, or compartmentalized. Custer performs chamber music, jazz, trance, pop, blues, silent film soundtracks, trip-hop, rock, folk, tribal, and ambient music. Likewise, Bernard has his fingers in jazz (from straight ahead to soul and jazz-rock), ...

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Beth Custer: In The Broken Fields Where I Lie

by Mark Corroto
January 1, 2000

Beth Custer is a musical chameleon. The San Francisco composer changes from musical genre to musical genre with effortless grace and unlike her colleagues from the New York Downtown Scene, she does it without pretension. Just glance at the list of musicians on this release to get a feel for its grand scale. But Beth Custer has always dabbled in scale, working in the psychedelic ethno/ambient Trance Mission with didgeridoo musician Stephen Kent, the Club Foot Orchestra creating soundtracks to ...