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Kyoko Kitamura

Kyoko Kitamura is a vocal improviser, composer, producer and multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She co-leads the quartet Geometry with cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, guitarist Joe Morris and cellist Tomeka Reid, and the collective trio Siren Xypher with violist Melanie Dyer and pianist Mara Rosenbloom. Siren Xypher is the producer of the Brooklyn Free Spirit Festival.

William Parker's Pocketwatch at Loove Annex

by Fran Kursztejn
May 8, 2026

William Parker's Pocketwatch Loove Annex  AFA ResidencyNew York City April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2026 Before beginning his final set of the night, William Parker took a moment to explain the name of his 'Pocketwatch ensemble, a rotating group of polyphonic masters that have met every Wednesday of April at Greenpoint's Loove Annex. ...

Alyssa Allgood, Michael Dease, Lena Bloch, The Sistering (Lois Deloatch, Nnenna Freelon, Lenora Zenzalai Helm, Kate McGarry)

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 9, 2026

This broadcast includes fundraising for the station, new music from Alyssa Allgood, Michael Dease, Lena Bloch and a single from The Sistering (Lois Deloatch, Nnenna Freelon, Lenora Zenzalai Helm, Kate McGarry), with birthday shoutouts to Lil Hardin Armstrong, Jutta Hipp, Jeanne Lee, Dolly Parton, Caili O'Doherty, Lena Bloch, Lucy Yeghiazaryan, Kaisa Maensivu and Teri Roiger, among ...

Jamie Baum: These Are Her Times

by Dean Nardi
August 25, 2025

Jamie Baum is a world-class composer as well as flutist, who smoothly balances woodwinds with horns, guitar, bass, piano and drums so that they are equals. Her compositions can remind you of a Gil Evans arrangement with several decades of development added to create a thoroughly modern milieu. She mixes high-energy with ballads and Western foundations ...

Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva Reimagined In A New Song Cycle By Lena Bloch

August 31, 2022

Acclaimed saxophonist/composer Lena Bloch reimagines work of Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva in a new jazz suite, commissioned by Chamber Music America Premieres of My Name Is Marina for jazz ensemble and voice on Sunday, October 2 in Manhattan and Sunday, October 16 in Brooklyn, both at 7 PM On the 130th anniversary of the birth of ...

William Parker: Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World

by Karl Ackermann
February 13, 2022

If multi-instrumentalist/composer William Parker's ten-CD Migration Of Silence Into And Out Of The Tone World suggests a cohesive, high concept plan, it is something more. The beautifully packaged clamshell box set is comprised of mutually exclusive projects—one dating back ten years—with some common themes. There is an overall dedication of the music to “all people of ...

Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World

By William Parker

Label: Centering Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: CD 1: Listen; Cosmic Funk; I’d Rather Be; A Great Day to Be Dead; Jenny’s Interlude; Blue Limelight (dedicated to Cecil Taylor); Bennie’s Tune; Recall; Kachina Song; All I Ever Want; Where the Angels Live; Old Tears.

CD 2: Malachi’s Mode; Malcolm’s Smile; This Sweet Land; The Golden Light (Hymn); Mexico; Broken Promises; Child of Sound; Sky Falling; Adobe House; Rez Sunset; Trail Of Tears I; Trail Of Tears II; Rez Sunrise; Ascending Earth.

CD 3: Baldwin; The Majesty of Jah; Freedom; Sun Song; Numbers; Letter to a Resurrected Slave Owner.

CD 4: Entire Universe; Cheops; The Map Is Precise; If We Play Soft Enough; Harriott.

CD 5: Dancing at the Savoy; Don’t Sell My Soul; Harlem Dances; Harlem Speaks; Paintings in the Sky; Shutters as Windows.

CD 6: Tilted Mirror; Mexico; The Bleeding Tree; It Is for You.

CD 7: Song to Lift Sadness (Morning); The Sky Is Always Beautiful; Morning Bird; Rocket Man; Essence Calling Out; Afternoon Poem; First Vision; Green and Brown; I Believe; I Will Die for You; Song for Patricia; My Cup; Silent Whispers; It Would Never Be Long Enough; Song to Lift Sadness (Evening); Cloud and Sea Fading as Rain Falls.

CD 8: Visconti; Fellini; Pasolini; Leone; De Sica; Rossellini; Gospel; Milano; Lights in the Rain; Antonioni.

CD 9: The Elders at the Edge of the World part 1; Cultivation; Deep Spirit; Family Voice; Listen to the Sky; Sacred Prayers; Host for the Anointed; Bamboo Village; Blessed; The Flute Reaches Out; The World’s Fastest Train; Joyous and Delightful; The Elders at the Edge of the World part 2.

CD 10: Charcoal Paragraphs; Khaen; Lakota Song; Manzanar; On Being Native.

William Parker: Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World

by Giuseppe Segala
January 25, 2021

L'attività musicale di William Parker è stata copiosamente documentata da circa centocinquanta dischi, che spaziano in un caleidocopio di gruppi fondati dallo stesso contrabbassista, formazioni cooperative, omaggi, collaborazioni. Ma nessun singolo lavoro, fino a questo momento, aveva focalizzato l'attenzione su un ventaglio di ispirazioni così ampio e completo come si fa ora nei dieci CD del ...

Traces

By Russ Lossing

Label: Aqua Piazza Records 002
Released: 2020
Track listing: Orchid,Gone,Traces,Autumn Moon,Echo,Impermanence,In the Stream,Home,Zazen

Accelerate Every Voice

By Cory Smythe

Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Northern Cities Vowel Shift; Accelerate Every Voice; Marl Every Voice; Kinetic Whirlwind Sculpture 1; Vehemently; Kinetic Whirlwind Sculpture 2; Knot Every Voice; Weatherproof Song; Piano and Ocean Waves for Deep Relaxation.