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Morton Feldman

The Kris Davis Trio: Lost In Geneva

by Mike Jurkovic
September 19, 2026

Lost in Geneva begins in that spatial, metro-rush way a lot of pianist/composer/provocateur Kris Davis' excursions into the city do. But it soon skews into its own glacial swath, like many of Davis' excursions into the city. Ergo, “The Subtext," a fierce workout by any means or description and its successor, “Congestion Pricing," a study in ...

Two Great Composers From Decades Apart

by John Eyles
October 12, 2025

Although the Another Timbre label was originally set up in 2007 to release recordings of improvised music--its very first release was The Contest of Pleasures by John Butcher, Axel Dorner and Xavier Charles--it did not take long for it to be releasing recordings of modern compositions... The label's tenth release, Lost Daylight, was played by John ...

Sarah Hennies, Richard Valitutto: SOVT

by John Eyles
April 17, 2025

Composer and percussionist Sarah Hennies was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1979. She started playing drums when she was nine years old; in her teens she played drums with local college punk rock bands. She attended the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign before receiving a Master's degree from University of California, San Diego. After graduating from UC ...

Collin Sherman: A Solitary Visionary in Jazz

by Robert Middleton
December 2, 2024

Collin Sherman is an outlier in the jazz world. He creates all his own music, plays every instrument, records everything himself, and rarely performs live. His approach is unconventional but deeply compelling, allowing him to produce music that defies easy categorization. In a conversation via Zoom, Sherman opened up about his journey, his creative process and ...

Satoko Inoue: Presents Jo Kondo's Works For Piano 2015-2020

by Alberto Bazzurro
November 14, 2024

Inciso nei mesi di aprile e luglio 2022, questo album ci restituisce uno spaccato piuttosto significativo di una serie di recenti pagine per pianoforte, per lo più solitario, del compositore giapponese Jo Kondo, oggi settantasettenne, di cui è nota una sia pur fugace frequentazione di John Cage e Morton Feldman, pagine di cui è protagonista la ...

Joëlle Léandre: Lifetime Rebel

by Mark Corroto
September 25, 2024

Joëlle Léandre is the definition of a force of nature. She is unstoppable, unforgettable, and full of boundless energy. It is the nature of her force that recordings like Lifetime Rebel attempt to capture. These four CDs--plus an interview and solo performance DVD--capture a moment, but just a moment of her inexhaustible spirit, before she moves ...

Ill Considered: Precipice

by Chris May
June 13, 2024

The British pianist John Tilbury believes that some free-improv musicians play for too long without pausing for literal or metaphorical breath and, to make matters worse, do not listen hard enough to their bandmates. How right he is. Tilbury has not named names, but many AAJers could surely suggest some. Tilbury recommends that improvising musicians should ...

American Composers On Another Timbre

by John Eyles
April 6, 2024

When the batch of four Another Timbre releases came out in February 2024, one aspect was particularly noticeable; of the four, two albums featured composers who were born in the U.S.A. and still reside there, Nomi Epstein and Paul Paccione. Although the label honored deceased American composers John Cage and Morton Feldman with highly-praised box sets, ...

Satoko Inoue: Presents Jo Kondo's Works For Piano 2015-2020

by Chris May
February 19, 2024

Jo Kondo is a composer unto himself, but for ready reference he can be filed in the proximity of John Cage and Morton Feldman, both of whom he got to know in 1978 in New York while in the city on a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Satoko Inoue is a concert pianist specializing in modern ...