Results for "Free improvisation"

Akiko Horii

Born: November 11, 1981

Born and raised in Kobe, Japanese-French jazz percussionist Akiko Horii was never afraid of bold moves growing up: after leaving her native Japan alone at the age of fifteen to attend high school on Long Island, she made a radical shift from studying classical piano to devoting herself to West African music and dance in college (CalArts), with a particular focus on the djembe and Ewe drumming from Ghana. She later spent several months in Ivory Coast, Guinea, and Mali, learning from masters and performing for local ceremonies. Her deep sense of rhythm and graceful abstractions notably brought her into the spotlight with several performances on Congahead

Jim Funnell

Born: April 3, 1984

Anglo-French pianist and composer Jim Funnell started leading his own band in his early teens, performing at jazz clubs by the time he was in high school. Dedicating himself to the study of both classical and jazz piano, he was awarded a full tuition scholarship from Berklee College of Music, where he was exposed to a diversity of styles and cultures. Jim then decided to travel to Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, soaking up Latin America’s folklore and Afro-Latin rhythms.

Since then, he has launched a prolific recording career: five albums as a leader/co-leader of both his own group “Word Out” (modern jazz combo with groove and world tinges) and AfuriKo (African infused jazz duo with percussionist Akiko Horii) have already been released to this day. Jim’s colorful and well-rounded compositional style earned him the Composition Prize in 2011 at the “Trophées du Sunside” in Paris. In 2017, Jazz Magazine (France) featured Woandering, a duo record with saxophonist Philippe Lopes de Sa, as a “Révélation !” and included Jim’s arrangement of She’s Out of My Life (Michael Jackson) on the editorial board’s playlist.

Tomi Pekkola

Born: April 5, 1982

Tomi Pekkola is an avant-garde-guitarist-composer from Hamina Finland. Along the years he has played in various types of groups with progressive or avant-garde ethos. Pekkola is a guitarist with a respect to the classics but his work is best described as a combination of contemporary classical & free improvisation with an attitude towards both meditative & explosive expression. Pekkola's main area in composition is at the time with his The Bull In a China Shop Quartet, a group on Bruce's Fingers label, but his work as a composer includes pieces for orchestra, chamber opera, chamber music vocal music & musics for different genres.

John Hughes

Dei Xhrist

Born: August, 1971

Sotto voce/art brut glossolalia, spoken word, fluxus compositions and movement. Xhrist began performing sonically in the early 00s, and now sings solo and with ensemble improvisors in the New England experimental sound/noise/improvisation/art scene.

Organizes XFest MA (www.xfestma.com) starting in 2019.

Han-earl Park

Shifting and switching from No Wave skronk to interstellar guitarist-as-drummer virtuosity, from stampedes of miniature Pomeranian Buffalos to All-You-Zombies heterophonies, Han-earl Park (박한얼) has been performing beautifully messy, joyously difficult, ambiguous and discordant improvised musics for over twenty years.

Park is drawn to the noisy poetry of interactive play; its pleasurable complexities, and joyous discords. He has become increasingly fascinated by the possibilities of refracting the improvisative through narrative tropes and forms, sometimes transposing techniques from fiction and cinema. He seeks musics that are ‘inconvenient,’ that resist easy resolution, and seeks practices that take seriously consent, affinity, agency, trust and compassion.

marcelo von schultz

Born: June 16, 1976

Marcelo von Schultz (Argentina, 1976) musician, drummer and teacher. Coming from the scene of jazz and creative music from the West (Dervish, Doña Marìa, Antü) for several years is devoted to the exploration and development of improvised music and free jazz.He has recorded two albums with Catriel Nievas, Dùo (2014) and Tùneles (2016) both edited by the French label Adaptador Records.Currently he continues playing in Dervish and is part of the trio Haiti, along with Cecilia Quinteros and Sergio Merce, a duo with Hernán Samá and the Mokita quartet with Cecilia Quinteros, Christoph Gallio and Alex Elgier.As a teacher he dictates the subject Afro-Latin Percussion of the chair of battery at the School of Art of Luján (Prov

MILTON

Born: September 25

Milton project was born just now (September 2018), based in Florence (Italy), from three quite different musicians (age and evolution), involved in Free Improvisation. And then (from Lune 2019) they were four :-) Renato CORDOVANI (1946): Clarinets and Sax - He is well known (in Italy but in Europe too) as free improviser, from the Seventhies. Just a "Maestro" with a really long history of collaborations. His latest release: http://www.autrecords.com/store/renato-cordovani-cordonbleux-at-nof/ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGfiqOanmGRVMh-pDHVRlyk2itlnkAcF0 Gianmarco CONTINI (1997): Piano and Keyboards - He is the youngest of the group (and he is really young), from "Classica/Contemporanea", but yet great in harmonization and extemporanean composition. Eleonora "TANCREDI" TASSINARI: DoubleBass, Voice, Piano, Harpsichord, Violin, Cello, Accordion and Sax - Composer and performer in Classical and Contemporanean music, with experiences in Theatre. Enrico FEDI (1960) Drums, El.Bass, Flutes, Reeds, Guitars, Keyboards,Violin - He is the founder of the group, in the Seventies in the florentine scenario (Prog/JazzRock), in Milton as a Jolly

John Bruce Wallace

John Bruce Wallace is a free jazz solo performer interested in freely improvised music with a focus on generating extended sound statements within the options afforded through solo performance. An acknowledged, accomplished guitar virtuoso working to create a new voice for the electric guitar, creating a new approach to the instrument, John Bruce Wallace is an incredibly challenging improviser, master of tonal dimension, expander of compositional style. Incorporating an aggressive, extremely individual wailing guitar sound that one has never heard before he invented a new technique of playing while continuously changing the pitch of his electric guitar

Ilaria Capalbo / Stefano Falcone

The collaboration between bassist and composer Ilaria Capalbo and pianist/composer Stefano Falcone is a work in progress, evolving since the pair met during studies and as their careers took shape, bringing Ilaria to Sweden and Stefano to Italy. The duo works on original compositions, co-writing and free improvisation, leading the tiny ensemble towards a distinctive, chamber-like sound that well represents the musicians' respective backgrounds and experiences. With this project, Stefano and Ilaria were featured as Artists In Residence for two years in a row at JazzIt Fest, a yearly event organized by Italy’s most prominent jazz magazine