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Glynis Lomon

Cellist Glynis Lomon went to Bennington College to continue her classical cello studies in 1973 where she met and began performing with musician/composer Bill Dixon. The music of Dixon's ensemble combined the exploration of the frontier of sound that she loved with rich rhythms, emotional expression, and the art and science of improvisation. Glynis has been privileged to play with {{m: Bill Dixon = 6301}}, {{Arthur Brooks}}, {{Jimmy Lyons}}, {{m: Cecil Taylor = 4823}}, {{Butch Morris}}, {{m: Syd Smart = 27438}}, {{William Parker}}, {{Greta Buck}}, {{m: Dennis Warren = 23963}}, {{m: Lowell Davidson = 6110}}, and many others. Recently she has been playing with pianist {{m: Eric Zinman = 20359}} in collaborations with {{m: Mario Rechtern = 27439}}, {{m: Sabir Mateen = 20866}}, {{Blaise Siwula}}, {{m: Laurence Cook = 26825}} and others.

Unconventional Instruments

by Karl Ackermann
July 27, 2021

ECM regularly tops lists of the best jazz labels though their full name--Edition of Contemporary Music--would argue for a broader scope of content. A substantial number of their most popular albums, such as Carla Bley's Escalator Over The Hill (1974), Egberto Gismonti: Dança Dos Escravos (1989), Nils Petter Molvær's Khmer (1997), and many more, are not ...

Leap of Faith/Thomas Heberer: Solution Concepts

by Karl Ackermann
September 25, 2015

The twenty year history of Leap of Faith includes an eleven year hiatus that is noteworthy more for the cooperative's ability to seamlessly pick up the pieces than for an uber-extended break. Cellist Glynis Lomon--a one-time student of Bill Dixon--was working the Boston circuit with multi-reedist PEK in the 1990s. The two honed their far reaching ...

Eric Zinman: The Piano as Endangered Species

by Brian Wrentham
August 31, 2010

For over twenty years, pianist/composer Eric Zinman has been crafting his own approach to his instrument, since meeting trumpeter Bill Dixon in the '80s. He views himself as an ensemble player, who plays to include; in addition to his own writing, his trio disc, Eric Zinman Ensemble (Cadence, 2006), features short pieces by John Voigt, Laurence ...

Unified Fields

By Glynis Lomon

Label: Ayler Records
Released: 2008