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Matthew Shipp Trio Perfoming at Chapel of Our Lady in Cold Spring, NY - April 30th @ 7:30 PM
World Renowned pianist Matthew Shipp brings his trio to the Chapel of Our Lady Restoration in Cold Spring NY in support of his new double cd “The Art of the Improviser" on Thirsty Ear Records. “Watching Matthew Shipp play the piano is a bit like sitting ringside. Lefts and rights hit the keyboard's midsection in steady ...
Creative Music Studio Book Reissue to Coincide with CMS Day at Columbia
Creative Music Studio Book Reissue to Coincide with CMS Day at Columbia The book that tells the story of the legendary Creative Music Studio—Music Universe, Music Mind: Revisiting the Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, New York (Ann Arbor: Arborville Publishing, ISBN 0-9650438-4-3)—is being reissued. The reissue coincides with events in 2011 designed to help cement the legacy ...
Lajos Dudas: 50 Years With Jazzclarinet - The Best Of Lajos Dudas
by Douglas Payne
Lajos Dudas50 Years With Jazzclarinet: The Best Of Lajos DudasJazz Sick Records2011 The clarinet is one of the most important instruments in the foundation of jazz. But it lost its luster after Benny Goodman fell out of popularity in the 1950s. After 1960, the few of the ...
George Cartwright: Barrier Islands Bird
by Gordon Marshall
George Cartwright can't be forgotten. The triple sax threat is part of the archaeology of modern New York. The downtown scene, just like New Orleans or 52 Street, has its mythology, and, as much as John Zorn, Cartwright figures in that, having come to the city fresh out of The Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New ...
Mark Feldman: Taking an Eclectic Path
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Violinist Mark Feldman started out in Chicago playing classical music and bar gigs before moving on to the Nashville scene. He emerged in New York's “downtown" circle with the likes of Arcado String Trio, trumpeter Dave Douglas, and composer-saxophonist John Zorn. His expressive, classically tinged technique was also sought for studio work with pop acts and ...
Don Cherry: From Out of the Shadows
by Raul d'Gama Rose
It was cool in Bombay that July in 1985, or was it 1986? Somehow the year does not seem to matter quite as much as it did when the phenomenon first occurred. The other details, of course, I remember clear as day. Association PC were tearing it up on stage at the fabled arena of the ...
John Surman: From Boy Choirs to Big Horns
by John Kelman
It's increasingly risky to be a musician on the road. When British saxophonist John Surman was traveling from his home in Oslo, Norway, to New York City in September, 2007 for a recording session, he almost lost his baritone saxophone to the airlines. “It is a nightmare traveling now," says Surman, “and hardly a tour goes ...
Gato Barbieri: In Search of the Mystery
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Gato Barbieri winds up and uncorks a meandering apocalyptic shout that begins with a growling, sinewy tenor and often returns there via a continuous spiral of bell-like primal screeches. He is probing, poking the tones of the tenor and searching madly for a timbral key to unlock a hidden route to harmonic peace. On this seminal ...
