Jazz Articles about Chris Burn

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Chris Burn's Ensemble: Ensemble at Musica Genera 2002

Read "Ensemble at Musica Genera 2002" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
November 15, 2003

Free improvisation in a new music context can often be a challenge. How to create new sonic landscapes? How to provide a structure that encourages collective improvisation? How to stretch the limits of traditional instruments in new and unheard-of ways? With his Ensemble at Musica Genera 2002, Chris Burn and company provide at least some of the answers in a program which challenges conventional concepts of both sound and improvisation.

Burn is a pianist who eschews all convention on his ...

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Album Review

Chris Burn Ensemble: The Place 1991

by Glenn Astarita
November 1, 2001

“The Place” signifies a London theater where pianist, Chris Burn, and his ensemble, featuring an assemblage of noteworthy British free-jazz/improvising artists, performed these compositions during the “Crosswinds” festival. The opener “Presponse,” elicits notions of an avant-garde or offbeat Sci-Fi thriller due to a series of fragmented themes and brazenly stated undercurrents by saxophonist John Butcher, flutist, Jim Denley and the strings section. Furthermore, Burn renders some relatively eerie statements via his utilization of a toy piano.

In the liners, Burn ...