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Thaw
By Ken Thomson
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Released: 2013
Track listing: PERPETUAL for bass clarinet and string quartet
1. underlying
2. Bad idea
3. Don Pullen says it’s OK
THAW for string quartet
4. Concrete
5. Dig
6. Hole
7. Thaw
Bang on a Can All-Stars Announce Ken Thomson as New Clarinetist
Bang on a Can, New York’s innovative and energetic champion of new music, officially announced the new clarinetist for its “All-Star” lineup. The Bang on a Can All-Stars have become a singular vehicle for visionary composition over the course of the last 20 years, and with the addition of Ken Thomson will continue to set the ...
Gutbucket: Cascades and Collisions
by Gordon Marshall
Over its 12-year career, Gutbucket has resituated its various musical parts like the pieces of a Rubik's cube. The elements of that cube, the sonic strains, have remained similar--an amalgam of fuzz rock, jumpy jazz, post-serial classicism--but its panoply of shifting color has been redeployed in unique ways on each of the Brooklyn-based quartet's five CDs, ...
It Would Be Easier If
By Ken Thomson
Label: Intuition
Released: 2010
Track listing: Kleine Helmet; Goddamn You Ice Cream Truck; No, no, no; Wanderangst; It Would Be Easier If.
Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast: It Would Be Easier If
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il primo brano “Kleine Helmet," coglie di sorpresa perché da una front line con chitarra elettrica, sax/clarinetto basso e tromba, era difficile aspettarsi un sorta di pastorale del terzo millennio, un'atmosfera cameristica screziata da impercettibili irregolarità ritmiche - grande il lavoro di Fred Kennedy - che lascia l'ascoltatore con un senso di pace sospesa e sognante, ...
Ken Thomson Turns His Reed Work to Chamber Jazz
Improvisation is a big, if not the biggest, pillar of jazz music. For many, it's what gives the music its unique identity, separating it from pop and the rest. Musicians wax poetic about the experience of playing that way, and I've written extensively about it through the years, particularly applauding those groups that practice free playing ...
Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast: It Would Be Easier If
by Bruce Lindsay
Ken Thomson, New York based saxophonist and composer, describes the music of Slow/Fast as “21st Century Third Stream." It's an apposite description, for it certainly brings together elements of jazz and classical music, but it underplays the third element of Slow/Fast's sound--the influence of rock. All four members of Slow/Fast, heard on the band's debut, It ...
Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast at Issue Project Room, February 25
KEN THOMSON - SAXOPHONIST/CLARINETIST/COMPOSER WITH GUTBUCKET, BANG ON A CAN, SIGNAL, AND MORE UNVEILS NEW GROUP “KEN THOMSON and SLOW/FAST” ISSUE PROJECT ROOM WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2009, 8PM 232 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 100% new music written throughout 2008 -- New project blends heavily composed long-form elements with improvisation, presenting a dynamic ...
Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast Debut at the Stone
Ken Thomson, co-leader of Gutbucket, performer in Signal, World/Inferno Friendship Society, Fire In July, and acclaimed emerging composer commissioned by Bang On A Can and the American Composers Orchestra, unveils a new project called Slow/Fast. The Music: Slow/Fast aims to connect the heavily-composed work Thomson has written for new music ensembles Bang on a Can All-Stars, ...
Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast Debut at the Stone Noveber 1
Ken Thompson - Saxophonist/composer with Gutbucket, Bang On A Can, Signal, and more --- Unviels new group: Ken Thompson and Slow/Fast Debut at The Stone Saturday, November 1st, 10pm Avenue C & 2nd Street, NYC 100% new music written throughout 2008 -- ...
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