Jazz Articles about Fujiwara, Goldberg, Halvorson

The Out Louds: The Out Louds

by Don Phipps
December 5, 2017

The Out Louds want you to know -it's not about compositions -it's about collective improvisation based on evolving musical themes. Go where the feeling takes you. Listen and add your voice. Branch out and come back. Go under water. Crawl through dark tunnels. Run along city boulevards. Crash in one's own room, quiet in the darkness before the break of sunlight. No, this is not toe tapping, head nodding business. This is formalism without edifice. There's a mental rigor to ...