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Trombonist/Composer Steve Swell Pays Tribute to Jemeel Moondoc with 'For Jemeel: Fire From the Road (2004-2005)'
by Michael Major - February 20, 2023 Fire From the Road serves as a powerful tribute to the band’s late saxophonist, Jemeel Moondoc, who passed away in August 2021 from complications of sickle cell anemia. The three-disc set compiles three hours of music captured in 2004 and 2005 at concerts in Houston and Marfa, Texas, and the Guelph ... 
William Parker to Release Monumental Archival Set 'Universal Tonality'
by Michael Major - July 27, 2022 Clocking in at nearly two hours and featuring six extended pieces flowing across two discs, Universal Tonality documents a performance that took place at Roulette in Manhattan's TriBeCa neighborhood in December 2002 (one of the final concerts at the venue's original loft space). Parker invited 16 mu... 
innova Recordings Announces Eight New Artists to Join the Label Following National Call
by A.A. Cristi - April 07, 2022 Today American Composers Forum announces the first collection of recording projects selected through a panel process for its in-house record label, innova Recordings. A national call issued in December 2021 launched innova's new business model aimed at making the process of visioning, producing, and... 
Burning Ambulance Streaming Festival Announces Lineup
by Michael Major - December 20, 2021 Burning Ambulance, the independent arts and culture hub launched in 2010 by writer Phil Freeman and artist I.A. Freeman, will kick off 2022 with an extraordinary single-day event: an online streaming festival featuring exclusive performances by 20 of today’s most creative artists from the realms of ... 
Annual Other Minds Festival of New Music to Return for 25th Year
by A.A. Cristi - August 03, 2021 Curated by jazz concert producer Harry Bernstein, Moment's Notice will bring to the festival stage twenty-six of the greatest living artists working in the field of improvised music, featuring many of the pioneering icons of this music, as well as several artists whose work is at once a continuance ... 
William Parker's 'Mayan Space Station' & 'Painters Winter' to Release July 9
by Sarah Jae Leiber - April 26, 2021 With Parker's Migration of Silence heralded from the front page of the New York Times Arts section to simultaneous cover stories in Germany’s Jazz Thing and Jazz Podium magazines to features and glowing reviews in The WIRE, The Quietus, Down Beat, Jazzwise, PopMatters, and more.... 
Lafayette Gilchrist Celebrates 'NOW' With Year-End Solo Livestream Concert
by Stephi Wild - December 24, 2020 On Monday, December 28 at 7 p.m. EST, Baltimore-based pianist, composer and bandleader Lafayette Gilchrist will perform a livestream solo piano concert presented by An Die Musik in Baltimore. ... 
Deep Tones For Change to Stream 68 Individual Performances on Election Day
by A.A. Cristi - October 22, 2020 With the election so close, the division so fractious and potentially explosive, we feel a special event is needed for the public on Election Day. ... 
Lafayette Gilchrist & Kevin Pinder Launch New Virtual Series A PERCUSSION DISCUSSION
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 26, 2020 Pianist/composer Lafayette Gilchrist and percussionist Kevin Pinder will launch A Percussion Discussion, a new online series, beginning Monday, June 29. The livestream will take place at 7 p.m. EDT from An Die Musik in Baltimore.... 
Nick Fraser Releases New CD 'Is Life Long?' on Clean Feed Records
by Caryn Robbins - January 04, 2018 Acclaimed Toronto-based drummer and composer, Nick Fraser, leads this outstanding jazz quartet featuring New York saxophonist Tony Malaby, 'one of the most distinctive artists of his time' (NYC Jazz Record).... 
Drummer Nick Fraser to Release 'Is Life Lon'g Feat. Malaby/Downing/Clutton
by Caryn Robbins - December 20, 2017 Acclaimed Toronto-based drummer and composer, Nick Fraser, leads this outstanding jazz quartet featuring New York saxophonist Tony Malaby, 'one of the most distinctive artists of his time' (NYC Jazz Record).... 
Drummer Nick Fraser to Release 'Is Life Long?' Feat. Malaby/Downing/Clutton
by Caryn Robbins - November 06, 2017 The quartet is rounded out by two exceptional string players, Andrew Downing and Rob Clutton. Their first two recordings, Towns and Villages (2013) and Starer (2016), received wide critical acclaim. Their third CD, Is Life Long? (2017) marks the group's debut on Lisbon-based Clean Feed Records.... |
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