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Ars Nova Workshop Announces 2010-11 Season
Featuring Rare Performances by Marc Ribot, Merzbow, Fennesz, Matthew Shipp and ECM Recording Artists Michael Formanek Quartet and Dans Les Arbes (Philadelphia, PA)—Ars Nova Workshop (ANW) just concluded its 10th Anniversary season—bringing over 40 jazz and experimental music performances to Philadelphia, including a sold-out show by the legendary Art Ensemble of Chicago, the late-Bill Dixon's first ...
The 22nd Edition of Earshot Jazz Festival: October 15 to November 7, 2010
Seattle's annual Earshot Jazz Festival returns October 15 and continues through November 7 with more than 50 distinctive concert events in venues all around the city. “Seattle's most important annual jazz event" —Downbeat Known for “adventurous, spot-on programming" (Jazz Times) and praised as “one of the best festivals in America" (Seattle Times) the Earshot Jazz Festival ...
Nels Cline: Of Singers and Sound
by Rex Butters
Mimi Melnick's Salons feature some of Los Angeles' best improvising musicians in the most intimate of settings--her home, at the top of a hillside overlooking the San Fernando Valley. This afternoon's trio tunes, and tests sound levels. Bass wizard and longtime UCLA professor Roberto Miranda banters with veteran drummer Bert Karl, while the group's lanky guitarist, ...
Elliott Sharp / Carbon: Void Coordinates
by Nic Jones
This is a reconvening for Elliott Sharp and his cohorts in Carbon--a band that spanned the period between 1991 and 1996--but anyone familiar with the guitarist's work will quite rightly take it for granted that this reunion has not resulted in the same old same old. If it has, in any degree, it's only as a ...
Andrea Centazzo: Guitars
by Elliott Simon
Live improvisation is ephemeral yet creative, a fleeting sonic moment in time that is lost as quickly as sound dissipates through space. Paradoxically, a recording of that same performance is eternally uninspired, each playing being identical to the one before it. For three decades, percussionist/electronicist Andrea Centazzo has been among the most successful at blurring that ...
Elliot Sharp Carbon: Void Coordinates
by AAJ Italy Staff
Anche un integralista come Elliot Sharp a volte ritorna sul luogo del delitto. Con il suo look da serial killer marziano degli anni cinquanta decide oggi di riesumare il progetto Carbon, attivo dalla seconda metà degli anni ottanta fino alla metà della decade successiva. Lo fa richiamando l'amica Zeena Parkins con la sua arpa elettrica foriera ...
Into the Fire: Winter Jazzfest 2010
by Gordon Marshall
Winter Jazzfest New York, New York January 8-9, 2010 Fast-forward 30 years from the days in the late 1970s and early '80s when the world-weary wisdom that jazz wasn't a living force anymore was whispered to us--maybe you are getting out of jail, maybe waking from a cryogenic sleep. Before this happened, ...
Live Guitars From New York: Chris Brokaw, Alan Licht, Elliott Sharp, Sonny Landreth & Daniel Johnston
by Martin Longley
The Chris Brokaw Guitar Triowith Alan Licht/Greg Kelley/Sean MeehanThe Knitting FactoryOctober 8, 2009The new Knitting Factory is a transplant from the old downtown Tribeca location to this new space in Brooklyn's Williamsburg district. It might seem superficially out-of-the-way, but it's only two stops on the subway out of Manhattan, ...
Bern Nix: A History In Harmolodics
by AAJ Staff
New York-based free jazz guitarist Bern Nix is one of the few people who are well-versed in Ornette Coleman's “harmolodics" style. He played with Coleman from 1975-1987, and now leads the Bern Nix Trio in New York City. In his compositions and his intriguing covers of standards, he is always looking in the corners of the ...
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