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Jon Irabagon

Jon Irabagon, winner of the 2008 Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition, has performed extensively as both a sideman and as a leader in an ever-expanding range of projects, from the most straight ahead to the most searching. Jon has studied under such divergent artists as Dave Liebman, Wynton Marsalis, Dick Oatts, Jason Moran and Victor Goines, and has performed and/or recorded with musical luminaries such as Billy Joel, Wynton Marsalis, Bright Eyes, Tom Harrell, Tommy Iago, Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, Deborah Gibson, John Abercrombie, Frank Wess, Wycliffe Gordon, Renee Fleming, Kenny Washington, Lou Reed, Jenny Lewis, Ron Sexsmith, and Ken Vandermark

The Charm of Impossibilities

By Chad McCullough

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Retroactive Resonance; Remain Soverign.

Recharge the Blade

By Jon Irabagon

Label: Irabbagast Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Kilgrave Part 1; Blood Eagle; Keelhauling; Nightshade; Kilgrave Part 2; Recharge the Blade; Trés Bechet; Tsar; Kilgrave Part 3; Quorum Call; We'll Meet Again; Welcome Parade.

Dan Weiss: Even Odds

by Mike Jurkovic
March 20, 2024

To say that “It Is What It Is"--regarding drummer/composer Dan Weiss's feverish first track on the fervently episodic Even Odds--misses the whole point entirely. It could be anything. And within its spacious yet oddly claustrophobic three-and-a-half minutes, evolutions come and go in real time. And real time is a bitch if you cannot keep up.

Jon Irabagon: Free-Jazz Musician, Saxophonist, Composer, Band Leader And Producer

by Doug Hall
March 13, 2024

On this show, we chat with Jon Irabagon, Filipino-American born free-jazz saxophonist, soloist, composer, bandleader, educator and producer (as founder of Irabbagast Records). A graduate of both the Manhattan School of Music in New York City and Berklee College of Music in Boston, Irabagon has been composing and collaborating with both acclaimed experimental jazz guitarist Mary ...

Jon Irabagon's Outright!: Recharge the Blade

by Mark Corroto
February 15, 2024

As with nearly all of saxophonist Jon Irabagon's music, the matter for debate is whether the listener needs to be as caffeinated as the musician. His brand of performance, going back two decades, has been one of constant motion and a bottomless cup of ideas. We heard this in Irabagon's contribution to the band Mostly Other ...

Michele Brangwen Dance & Music Ensemble

Active since: 1999

The Michele Brangwen Dance & Music Ensemble is an interdisciplinary performing ensemble of contemporary dance and music. In 22 years, every performance has included live original music and the musicians as integral parts of the visual stage imagery. We believe that the artist’s role in society is to communicate, to challenge, to open a dialogue that can both unite us and inspire meaningful change. We function like a jazz band, and along with sections of choreographed movements and written music, we use improvisation that comes out of the form, concept, and emotional life of the work.

Monochromes

By Ingrid Laubrock

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Monochromes.

Ingrid Laubrock: Monochromes

by Mark Corroto
October 13, 2023

Saxophonist & composer Ingrid Laubrock and her partner, drummer Tom Rainey self-released an ongoing series of spontaneous duets, the Stir Crazy Episodes, recorded during the pandemic lockdown. They were most likely a kind of pressure release mechanism for both artists. With Monochromes, Laubrock heads in the opposite direction by commissioning four musicians to pre-record tape pieces ...

Jazz Power Initiative Kicks Off 20th Anniversary Season With The Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam Series

October 2, 2023

Jazz Power Initiative (JPI), an Inwood-based non-profit organization founded in 2003 with the mission of transforming lives through jazz music, arts education and performance, kicks off its 20th anniversary season with the acclaimed Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam series starting in October. Held twice-monthly, the Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam presents professional and emerging jazz artists with a ...