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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Improvising trio Kuzu set for St. Louis debut
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring the musicians in Kuzu, an improvising trio who will be coming to St. Louis to perform in a concert presented by New Music Circle on Wednesday, March 11 at Joe's Cafe. Saxophonist Dave Rempis, guitarist Tashi Dorji and drummer Tyler Damon all are veterans of the improvised music scene, with Rempis and Damon based in Chicago and Dorji living in Asheville, NC. They formed Kuzu in the fall of 2017, ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Improvising with Laubrock, Rainey and Damon
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, we've got a series of videos featuring saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, drummer Tom Rainey and drummer Tyler Damon, who will be the visiting performers at New Music Circle's final concert of the season at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 20 at the William S. Kerr Foundation, 21 O'Fallon St. on Laclede's Landing. Active in the NYC and international improvised music scenes, Laubrock and Rainey played in St. Louis last year as part of pianist Kris Davis' group. This time, they'll do ...
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Fred Hersch, Improvising Pianist, Alone at the Vanguard
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Fred Hersch plays one hell of a piano. He was very ill several years ago, in a near-death coma- state, but most thankfully he's recovered and back at it. The live solo disk Alone at the Vanguard (Palmetto 2147) shows a certain even deeper level of profundity than the usual, which I have to believe comes out of the wisdom and introspection going through such an ordeal can bring to the creative person. It's a full disk of Fred playing ...
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Experimental Music in the Twin Cities: Improvising over Dis-Chordant Changes
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
The changing commitment at the Clown Lounge was bad enough. Now one of the few remaining homes for experimental music in the Twin Cities is changing its focus as well. Café Maude, that neighborhood restaurant in Southwest Minneapolis that has offered a surprising range of avant-garde jazz and broad-reaching improvisational music for several years, will discontinue its weekend music as of March 1st. The Clown long hosted Fat Kid Wednesdays as its Monday night “Jazz Implosion," for at least the ...
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Your Brain While Improvising Music, Freestyling Rap
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HypeBot
Is it possible to study creativity scientifically? That's what researcher Charles Lamb wants to know. He has been analyzing how the brain works during musical improvisation. To do so, he has been putting jazz musicians and rappers into fMRI machines and surveying what goes on in their brains when they're improvising. This is a facinating talk. Take a look: ...
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Pele-Mele Works Releases “Intervallic Fretboard - Towards Improvising on the Guitar,” and Offers Guitar Players a Novel Approach to the Instrument
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bridgepin
Pêle-Mêle Works releases a new instructional book offering guitarists a different take on the fingerboard, with improvisation as the underlying motivation: “Intervallic Fretboard Towards improvising on the Guitar," by Ashkan Mashhour and Dave Murdy. Whether in jazz, blues, rock, fusion, etc., shapes and patterns are widely used in teaching the guitar, be it for scales, chords, or arpeggios. Intervallic Fretboard takes a novel and different approach to the guitar fretboard, emphasising an intervallic thought process. Moving away from shapes, patterns, ...
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New Lesson Just Released: Improvising Over Pachelbel's Canon
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Bill Rinehart
Hiromi's understated solo over this well known baroque keyboard piece is an accessible introduction to improvising with pentatonics. In this lesson, a transcription of her solo from 2010's Place to Be is analyzed for her use of the major pentatonic scale within the framework of the Four Components of Melodic Construction. As an added bonus, she incorporates stride and gospel elements as well. JazzPianoOnline.com is an on-demand, digital library of streaming video jazz piano lessons. Choose from the ever-growing collection ...
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Erik Friedlander - Fifty: 50 Miniatures for Improvising Quintet (2010)
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Something Else!
By Pico Cello virtuoso Erik Friedlander must have found a second wind at 50 years old because yesterday he released his second album of all new material as many months. The album, incidentally, is called Fifty: 50 Miniatures For Improvising Quintet and in Friedlander's typically atypical fashion, it introduces a concept he hadn't tried on any album he has recorded before. Friedlander was commissioned by the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum in 2008 to compose a music collection of pieces ...
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Musical Improvising -- Is It All in Your Brain?
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Michael Ricci
Is there a biological basis to a great sax solo?
Jonah Lehrer, a Wired editor and author of several populist-psychology books, recently recapped an intriguing new study by psychologists Darya Zabelina and Michael Robinson of North Dakota State University. The authors asked distinct groups of college students to imagine a day off from school or work, with one groups day set in the present, and the other's set from the perspective of a 7-year-old, and then gave each some creative ...
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Improvising Duo Skinny Vinny Interviewed at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Andrew Eisenberg is the percussionist for the Boston, Mass. duo Skinny Vinny--and a conceptual mastermind. Equally adept with hammer, saw, trash can, pots and pans, or what have you, he can make you think, or muse, by knocking together a table, or banging a stick against a window. An early piece, a big white room with a steel door, was titled “The Answer to Everything." The answer was enclosed within the room. But the door was locked...
No, Skinny Vinny ...
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Improvisi
Location: London
Instrument: Band / ensemble / orchestra
