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News: Performance / Tour

Instant Composers Pool Orchestra to Play 3-Day Concert Series April 1-3 in Philadelphia on US Spring Tour

March 27, 2011

From April 1st through the 3rd, Ars Nova Workshop will present Three Days in Philadelphia, a multi-night concert series showcasing the work of acclaimed Dutch ensemble Instant Composers Pool Orchestra (ICP), in a rare US appearance. The internationally celebrated tentet has engaged audiences with their unique blend of tradition and experimentation for over 40 years. Instant ...

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Article: Album Review

Anthony Braxton: Trio & Quintet (Town Hall) 1972

Read "Trio & Quintet (Town Hall) 1972" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
March 15, 2011

Maybe the world wasn't ready for the music of Anthony Braxton back in 1972, when this concert was recorded, and maybe it wasn't ready for him, when it was released twenty years later in 1992. Then again, is it really ready for him today? Certainly, and this music is very accessible. This beautifully remastered ...

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Article: Album Review

Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble: The Prairie Prophet

Read "The Prairie Prophet" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
March 2, 2011

Since 1978, saxophonist Ernest Dawkins has led his flagship band, The New Horizons Ensemble, through myriad jazz traditions, from blues, swing and funk to post-bop, avant-garde and beyond. The Prairie Prophet, their fifth album on Delmark, is dedicated to one of Chicago's most venerated scene leaders, the late tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson, a founding member of ...

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Article: Live From New York

Wayne Shorter, Roscoe Mitchell & Oliver Lake

by Martin Longley
March 1, 2011

The Wayne Shorter Quartet The Town Hall February 9, 2011 When observing Wayne Shorter on the stage, he's immediately remarkable for possessing an eccentric body language. In his childlike way (particularly the exploratory, enquiring nature of the as-yet-unformed), Shorter reveals his inner self, always responding to his ...

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Article: Album Review

Manfred Kniel and his Reduction Quartet: Low Down Music

Read "Low Down Music" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
February 28, 2011

Drummer Manfred Kniel has leadership status on this release, and all the compositions are his. But this is also, perhaps, the key to the music's shortcomings, especially when the rhythmic vitality the leader habitually imparts is not matched by some other equally compelling element. His sly and sometimes witty melodic sense seems often to be a ...

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Article: Interview

Robin Holcomb: Distinctive Mysteries

by Gordon Marshall
February 14, 2011

Robin Holcomb's songs are knotty like tumbleweeds, braided like roads on maps along which tumbleweeds roll. She lays her songs down like baskets that have the rustic grace of birds' nests, always on the verge of promising a truth, but brimming with natural mysteries. Mysteries accrue, creating a keen urge to get at the kernel of ...

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Article: Live Review

Winter Jazzfest, New York City, Day 1: January 7, 2011

by Gordon Marshall
January 12, 2011

Day 1 | Day 2 Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 7-8, 2011 What with the snow, the lines, the standing-room-only crowds, New York City's Winter Jazzfest can be a hectic, hectoring hell of force-feeding, a speed-read tasting menu of mad musical difference, as hard to digest in the instant ...

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Article: Year in Review

John Sharpe’s Best Releases of 2010

by John Sharpe
January 6, 2011

Here are ten new releases, in no particular order, which stood out among those I heard this year. Joe McPhee / Ingebrigt Håker FlatenBlue Chicago BluesNot TwoJoe McPhee and Ingebrigt Håker Flaten make a successful pairing as evidenced by interactions which evince a highly charged form and ...

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Article: Album Review

Mike Reed's Loose Assembly Featuring Roscoe Mitchell: Empathetic Parts

Read "Empathetic Parts" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
November 30, 2010

The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) has nurtured the talents of Chicago's most inventive artists since 1965. Drummer Mike Reed, the venerable organization's recently appointed Vice Chairman, repays the favor on Empathetic Parts, with his longstanding quintet, Loose Assembly, by welcoming one of the Association's original founders, multi-instrumentalist Roscoe Mitchell, as featured guest ...

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Article: Album Review

Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections: Emerald Hills

Read "Emerald Hills" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
November 22, 2010

In some ways Chicago-based flautist Nicole Mitchell's Emerald Hills resembles an old style AACM record: there's an adventurous spirit, a diversity of approaches, and chops to burn. More recent reference points include Mitchell's own Xenogenesis Suite (Firehouse 12, 2008) but (largely) without the challenging vocals. Joining Mitchell in the quartet she calls Sonic Projections, are long ...