Jazz Articles about Connie Crothers

Connie Crothers: Live at the Outpost Performance Space

by Francis Lo Kee
February 6, 2006

This is a great example of truly free music, not the kind of posing, temper-tantrum stuff that is often enslaved by its ignorance of melody or harmony. Connie Crothers has forged a truly individual path in music, with next to no help from the marketplace. From track one, “Bird's Word, you get the feeling that even though this is pretty standard instrumentation, the approach to the music is very original.

It would be a misleading oversimplification to say that this ...