Results for "Improvisations"

Stefano Tanzi

Keyna Wilkins

Keyna Wilkins is a pioneering Australian/British composer-musician. She was one of three finalists for the Australian Art Music Awards for Individual Excellence in 2021 and 2018 (APRA/AMCOS).

As an innovative soloist her solo show explores stream-ofconsciousness improvisations alongside her composed pieces, often using loop pedal and visual projections and inspired by contemporary human rights issues, astronomical phenomena and philosophy.

She has collaborated with six detained refugees from their prison cells via zoom, victims of Australia's brutal mandatory refugee detention laws for nine years, on music, poetry and art collaborations.

Reggie Watkins

Born: August 24, 1971

Trombonist, pianist, arranger and composer Reggie Watkins has released five recordings as leader. The March 28th 2025 release of Rivers (BYNK Records) features Watkins on trombone with his quartet playing all of his original compositions and arrangments. In addition to composing and performing with his own groups, he is a member of the 3X Grammy nominated group Orrin Evans' Captain Black Big Band, The Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra, Steeltown Horns and Keystone Jazz Collective. Watkins has toured and recorded extensively with artists such as trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, Jason Mraz, The Temptations, Postmodern Jukebox, Dumpstaphunk, and saxophonist Richie Cole.

Improvisations

By Michael Bisio

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: [10:54]; [5:54]; [7:46]; [4;31]; [3:31]; [5:25]; [5:07]; [6:25].

Allen Shawn / Michael Bisio: Improvisations

by Mark Corroto
December 7, 2020

In this new world of fake news and alternative facts, you may like to challenge the title of pianist Allen Shawn and bassist Michael Bisio's Improvisations. This music is so properly presented, it has all the elements of composed music. To acknowledge these eight tracks as instant composing is sort of mind-blowing. Those immersed ...

Allen Shawn/Michael Bisio: Improvisations

by Karl Ackermann
December 6, 2020

Classical pianist and composer Allen Shawn is not a familiar name in the jazz world. He comes from a well-known artistic family, the son of long-time The New Yorker editor William Shawn, and brother of actor and playwright Wallace Shawn. Allen Shawn received degrees from Harvard and Columbia Universities and teaches at Bennington College in Vermont. ...

Improvisations

By Waldo's Gift

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Greenwood I; Greenwood II; Seesaw; Four; Kaleidoscope; Thoughts; Seven.

Improvisations

By Roscoe Mitchell

Label: OTOrocku
Released: 2014
Track listing: A; b; c; d.

Roscoe Mitchell/Tony Marsh/John Edwards: Improvisations

by John Sharpe
April 3, 2014

Not content with existence as a cutting edge venue for experimental music of all kinds, London's Cafe Oto has also launched its own record label OTOroku, documenting some of the stellar performances in the space. For their sixth release, they have selected material drawn from a 2 day residency by renowned AACM and Art Ensemble of ...

Improvisations

By Roscoe Mitchell

Label: Mutable Music
Released: 2013