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Danny Frankel with Nels Cline & Larry Goldings: The Interplanetary Note/Beat Conference
by Mark Corroto
Enough is sometimes enough. Drummer/percussionist Danny Frankel presents a shortish (by modern CD standards), 34-minute collection of 11 compositions on The Interplanetary Note/Beat Conference. Then again, sometimes a sketch can speak louder than an entire painting.Frankel, a consummate player, has been a sideman to the likes of Laurie Anderson, Steven Bernstein, Lou Reed, Robin ...
Robin Holcomb: Distinctive Mysteries
by Gordon Marshall
Robin Holcomb's songs are knotty like tumbleweeds, braided like roads on maps along which tumbleweeds roll. She lays her songs down like baskets that have the rustic grace of birds' nests, always on the verge of promising a truth, but brimming with natural mysteries. Mysteries accrue, creating a keen urge to get at the kernel of ...
Singer/Songwriter Robin Holcomb Interviewed at All About Jazz
While she's been around since the early '80s, emerging in New York's Downtown Scene alongside husband Wayne Hortivtz, pianist/vocalist Robin Holcomb made her first major leap onto a broader radar with her eponymous 1990 debut, on Nonesuch Records. Her ability to combine left-leaning concerns with Americana traditionalism and historical concerns have made her a unique voice ...
The Point Of It All
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing: Interlude; The Sweetest Thing; Buttermilk Hill Suite; Sad Waltz; The Point of It All; Couch Alternate (alternate); Tiny Swing; Against the Drift; 10.15.07; After the Gold Rush; The Scavenger's Song; Electrical Storm; The Rain.
Sarah Wilson: Trapeze Project
by Eyal Hareuveni
San Francisco-based trumpeter/vocalist Sarah Wilson is gifted with idiosyncratic and fresh composing skills that are so rare in jazz musicians who have gone through the formal avenues of jazz education. Her career began when she composed and played music for the Bread and Puppet Theater troupe; continued by studying with esteemed trumpeters John McNeil and Laurie ...
Big Bands: Wayne Horvitz, Satoko Fujii, Steve Lehman, Kenny Werner & Andrew D'Angelo
by Martin Longley
The New York Composers OrchestraUniversity Of The StreetsOctober 23, 2010 Even for local residents, an appearance by the New York Composers Orchestra has become a rarity. Its guiding forces, the pianists Wayne Horvitz and Robin Holcomb, have long been living in Seattle (they moved in 1989), so get-togethers have ...
Robin Holcomb and Talking Pictures with Wayne Horvitz: The Point of It All
by John Kelman
An unspoken rule amongst musicians is: don't date someone in the band, let alone marry them. Still, there are exceptions, one of the most notable being the husband/wife team of singer/songwriter Robin Holcomb and keyboardist Wayne Horvitz. Together for three decades, they've intersected when the time is right, while still maintaining absolute independence through their rich, ...
Robin Holcomb at the Stone (NYC) on April 15 - 18
ROBIN HOLCOMB AT THE STONE APRIL 15 - 18, 2010 The Stone Avenue C and 2nd Street, NYC $10 ROBIN HOLCOMB performs a variety of projects at The Stone ranging from a reunion of The 25 O'Clock Band, a first collaboration with noted experimental novelist Lynne Tillman, a ...
Joe Hill: 16 Actions for Orchestra, Voice, and Soloist
Label: New World Records
Released: 2009
Track listing:
01. Action 1: Power in the Union 6:16; 02. Action 2: One Day One Hour
7:05; 03. Action 3: Worthy of his Food 7:41; 04. Action 4: Jerusalem,
Jerusalem 1:38; 05. Action 5: It’s a Lie 5:31; 06. Action 6: On
Another Shore 4:33; 07. Action 7: Spike Driver's Blues 7:17; 08.
Action 8: The Land as a Stranger 3:48; 09. Action 9: Lumberjack’s
Prayer 4:53; 10. Action 10: To Have This Hour 2:15; 11. Action 11:
Hard Time in the Country 4:08; 12. Action 12: I Never Died 1:57; 13.
Action 13: Nameless, Faceless 6:18; 14. Action 14: Bound to Wake Up
3:55; 15. Action 15: How to Die 5:52; 16. Action 16: Where Flowers
Grow 4:29.
Wayne Horvitz: Joe Hill: 16 Actions for Orchestra, Voice, and Soloist
by AAJ Italy Staff
Wayne Horvitz giunge ad uno snodo epocale della sua eccellente carriera con questo ambizioso e riuscito progetto affidato ad una grande orchestra di stampo classico, con l’aggiunta preziosa delle voci della moglie Robin Holcomb, del fido Danny Barnes e di Rinde Eckert. E con le importanti evoluzioni solistiche assicurate dalla magica chitarra di Bill Frisell. I ...
