Jazz Articles about Jon Raskin

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Jon Raskin and Clara Harryman: Open Box

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 2, 2013

Among the varied collaborations between poets and musicians, or the adaptation of poetry to music, the setting of Carla Harryman's genre-busting poetry to improvised music by ROVA Saxophone Quartet's Jon Raskin is outstanding. Not only because of Harryman's avant-garde poetic language--often focusing on the language itself, its contradictions and shortcomings--subverting its attempts to capture the fleeting thoughts of the poet or contemplating on its contribution to common complicity to power; rather, mainly due to its success at creating an original ...

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Jon Raskin Quartet: The Bass & The Bird Pond

by Glenn Astarita
March 1, 2000

A member of the acclaimed West Coast based woodwind quartet, “ROVA”, saxophonist Jon Raskin aligns himself with East Coast modern jazz champion, saxophonist/bandleader Tim Berne on The Bass & The Bird Pond. Here the “Jon Raskin Quartet” featuring the monstrous rhythm section of bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Elliot Kavee inscribe a few more pages into the ever-evolving and expansive idiom some of us refer to as “modern jazz”.

The dual alto saxophonists ruminate as if they were belting out ...