Jazz Articles about David Rothenberg

About David Rothenberg

Album Review

Jacob Young/David Rothenberg/Sidiki Camara: They Say Humans Exist

Read "They Say Humans Exist" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
July 22, 2020

"Is it enough to watch a flower grow?" Jacob Young muses over a slow-drifting cloud of clarinet and light percussion. “Is it enough to just be, to mind our own business?" If that sounds too much like coffeehouse open-mic poetry, the natural spirit behind it is genuine enough, and the vague spoken words only pop up briefly at the bookends of this short-and-sweet free-improv outing. This trio is thinking of big things--the title represents what aliens might say upon first ...

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Album Review

David Rothenberg: Whale Music

Read "Whale Music" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk
December 18, 2008

Composer and academe David Rothenberg covered fascinating ground in his 2005 book and CD Why Birds Sing (Terra Nova), examining the functions of bird songs and employing them in his music, recording with a variety of birds around the world. To follow that up, Rothenberg has spent time working with another famed animal singer. Whale Music, a companion CD to his recent book Thousand Mile Song (Basic Books), is a set of clarinet pieces (with some additional instrumentation) set to ...