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Glen Whitehead

Born: January 1, 1969

Trumpet artist and interdisciplinary composer Glen Whitehead explores improvisational phenomena and environmental collaboration between living cultures and the natural world.  As a contemporary trumpet artist, he has been featured on numerous recordings, music festivals and residencies around the world, has commissioned concertos from some of the world’s most celebrated composers, and creates his own unique brand of ecoacoustic improvisational music.  

He released Pale Blue: Parables of the Anthrophony for Earth music, trumpet, and sound processing on Neuma Records in Spring, 2023. He published an article related to the compositional methods of this music in the Journal of Critical Studies in Improvisation, Col. 14, No.3 entitled “Take it Outside, People!: Bridging Ecoacoustics and Improvised Music” in the Journal of Critical Studies in Improvisation, Col. 14, No.3 (2021).  He is also featured on Soundscapes of Restoration and Icefields on Parma Recordings, released Spring, 2023.    His trio recording, the Living Daylights (2018) on pfMENTUM received rave reviews and remained on the top 10 of radio playlists across the U.S. for over a year. Psychoangelo’s release with Michael Theodore panauromni was listed on the top ten cd’s of the year by Chicago Time Out.  Film scores include Stitching Rites (Now and Then Productions, 2021). He has commissioned major new solo works for trumpet, ensemble and orchestras including the Ecoacoustic Concerto for two trumpets, sonic environments and ensemble by Matthew Burtner (2015) with Grammy Award winner, trumpeter Cuong Vu, Hennessy Concerto for trumpet and orchestra by Film composer Sean Hennessy (2013) and Lonnie and Lonie double concerto with trumpet, piano and orchestra by Macarthur Fellow Dr. George Lewis (2019). He is the Artistic Director of the Peak FreQuency Creative Arts, and Director of Performance of the EcoSono institute (with Dr. Matthew Burtner). For summer 2023, working with pianist Steve Drury, he was instrumental in moving the internationally acclaimed Summer Institute of Contemporary Practice (SICPP) festival to the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and is the new Director of SICPP at UCCS.

New Releases Including A Rare Live Recording Of Tubby Hayes From 1965

by Bob Osborne
July 13, 2023

On this show music from Federico Solomiewicz, Dan Kurfirst, Glen Whitehead, Phil Venable, Barbara Thompson, Judge Schreber and Her Magic Band, Kaisa's Machine (Kaisa Mäensivu), Perforto, Nicky Schrire, Leandro Garcia, and the release of a new complete edition of a 1965 recording by Tubby Hayes.Playlist Show Intro 0:00 Federico Solomiewicz “Desde el sur" from ...

Paul Plimley, Evan Parker & Denis Fournier

by Maurice Hogue
August 21, 2019

This show marks the one-year anniversary of publishing One Man's Jazz on All About Jazz's radio section, and we're taking a decided dip into the “deep end" of the improvisation pool. There's lots of avant-garde, experimental, free form, free improv on the bill. Is it “noise," is it the future? That's for the listener to decide, ...