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Michael Zerang
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Michael Zerang was born in Chicago, Illinois, 1958, and is a first-generation American of Assyrian decent. He am a professional musician, composer, producer, and educator since 1976, focusing extensively on improvised music, free jazz, contemporary composition, puppet theater, experimental theater, and international musical forms. As an ensemble member, he has worked in a concentrated fashion with several small and large groups over the years, contributing as a composer and performer, including Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, Liof Munimula, Survival Unit III, Brötzmann/McPhee/Kessler/Zerang Quartet, Resonance Ensemble, Friction Brothers, Johannes Bauer Band, and The Winter Solstice Concerts with Hamid Drake – an annual event in Chicago since 1990
Mars Williams / Tollef Østvang: Painted Pillars
by Mark Corroto
If you only know saxophonist Mars Williams from his gigs with the post-punk band The Psychedelic Furs or the hip-hop/funk band Liquid Soul, you're missing out on a talented and dedicated free-jazz improviser. He scatters himself in many directions, from collaborations with Chicago's Ken Vandermark, Tim Daisy, Jim Baker and Michael Zerang, to work in Europe ...
3 Nights In Oslo
Label: Catalytic Sound
Released: 2017
Track listing: Untitled [Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1]; Untitled [Sonore: Ken Vandermark / Mats Gustafsson / Peter Brötzmann]; Untitled [Sonore: Ken Vandermark / Mats Gustafsson / Peter Brötzmann]; Untitled [Michael Zerang / Paal Nilssen-Love]; Untitled [Johannes Bauer / Per Åke Holmlander]; Untitled [Joe McPhee / Ken Vandermark]; Untitled [Joe McPhee / Ken Vandermark]; Untitled [Jeb Bishop / Paal Nilssen-Love]; Untitled [Jeb Bishop / Paal Nilssen-Love]; Untitled [Survival Unit III: Michael Zerang, Joe McPhee, Fred Longberg-Holm]; Untitled [Survival Unit III: Michael Zerang, Joe McPhee, Fred Longberg-Holm]; Untitled [Trombone Choir: Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer, Per Åke Holmlander]; Untitled [Trombone Choir: Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer, Per Åke Holmlander]; Untitled [Trombone Choir: Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer, Per Åke Holmlander]; Untitled [Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1]; Untitled [Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1].
The Slovenian Experience: Jazz Festival Ljubljana 2017
by Henning Bolte
Ljubljana--capital of the Republic of Slovenia, member of EU, neighbored by Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Italy--hosts the oldest jazz festival in Europe, which held its 58th edition this year (June, 28--July, 2). The event is organized by Cankarjev House/Cankarjev Dom, a prestigious, state-run cultural center in midtown Ljubljana, residing in one half of an impressive twin ...
Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang: For Ed Blackwell
by Mark Corroto
This forty-two minute continuous recording of drummers Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang was released on the occasion of the 25th anniversary performance of their Winter Solstice Concerts in December 2015. The percussionists' tradition of welcoming the return of the sun to the northern hemisphere every December 21st by making music predawn only to be illuminated by ...
Ken Vandermark Resonance Ensemble: Double Arc
by Mark Corroto
For the most part, we only follow the trajectory of an artist's career many years after his work has been completed. Looking back at the career of Miles Davis, you can now play connect-the-dots from bebop to Gil Evans to modal jazz to electric Miles. Certainly, back in the day, many a listener knew not where ...
Sonic Communion: Sonic Communion
by John Sharpe
In one of the more appropriately titled releases, three French improvisers encounter two Americans in concert, captured during a short tour of France. Heading up the US contingent is underexposed AACM stalwart reedman Douglas Ewart, accompanied by another Windy City denizen in drummer Michael Zerang. Bassists Joelle Leandre and Bernard Santacruz thicken the ensemble sound, while ...
Peter Brotzmann/Joe McPhee/Kent Kessler/Michael Zerang: Tales Out Of Time
by Mark Corroto
It is rare, in this new century, for us to look back at the significant recordings of living artists. The powers that be seem to always be pushing out new product to support a tour and get media attention. Then of course, once the artist has passed on, let the reissue series begin. Thank God for ...
Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin: Ichigo Ichie
by Mark Corroto
I'm going to propose a computer “app" called Big Band World Domination. With this software players would be able to go forward and backward in time to have big bands compete against each other. Spin back to the territory bands of the 1920s, 30s, all the way to the 1960s, and then up to today. We ...
Fred Lonberg-Holm/Ken Vandermark: Resistance
by Mark Corroto
When you consider all the musicians that have recorded duos with cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, it sounds kind of like the SPAM Monty Python sketch comedy piece. “Yes, I'll have some Fred Lonberg-Holm and Ken Vandermark." What, you don't want Fred Lonberg-Holm and Axel Dörner, or Fred Lonberg-Holm and Mats Gustafsson, or Fred Lonberg-Holm and Peter Brotzmann, ...
