Billington/Shippy/Wyche – self-titled (Astral Spirits, 2017) [cassette] Matthew Lux’s Communication Arts Quartet – Contra/Fact (Astral Spirits, 2017) [cassette] Arriongton De Dionyso & Ted Byrnes – The Ballot or the Bullet (Astral Spirits, 2017) [cassette] Rodenticide – self-titled (Self Sabotage, 2017) [vinyl] Farmers by Nature – Love and Ghosts (AUM Fidelity, 2014) Nakatani/Kawabata/Chou – Perigee (Astral Spirits, 2017) [cassette] Clifford
This is the first in a series of interviews that I will publish with musicians that I met during a brief visit to Mexico City around the time of the 2018 New Year holiday. First up: bassist Adriana Camacho Torres. Cisco Bradley: Where do you come from? What were your formative musical experiences growing up? Adriana
VAX Dispatch, No. Three-Hundred thirty vax if you delve into the twisted underbranches of the brooklyn historical society archive you can confront yourself with cisco bradley’s VAXterview. shoveling the dust off a couple other old blogs, you will sniff the persistent remnant vapors of evidence of past brilliance and you should see the look on
Chain (Yedo Gibson, Hernani Faustino, Vasco Trilla) – self-titled (No Business, 2017) Mark Dresser – Modicana (No Business, 2017) Liudas Mockunas – Hydro (No Business, 2017) Archie Shepp Quartet – Parisian Concert, vol. 1 (Impro, 1977) [vinyl] Archie Shepp Quartet – Parisian Concert, vol. 2 (Impro, 1977) [vinyl] Frank Wright Trio – self-titled (ESP-Disk, 1965) [vinyl] Ornette Coleman – The
Interview with Saxophonist Sam Weinberg CB: What was your entry into the New York improvisational/experimental music scene? SW: The summer before my freshman year of high school, my family moved from Los Angeles to Nassau County, Long Island. Fortunately for me, that summer, my mom enrolled me in a jazz program at Queens College which
Current | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 CONCERT LISTINGS FOR 2017 December 1 (Friday) Lor in Pravena; The Delegation; Brandon Seabrook & Peter Evans; Justin Neely (live painting) Spectrum 7:30 pm $10-15 Interstellar Regions—The Late Music of John Coltrane: David Liebman, Michael Eaton, Marc Ribot, Jamie Saft, Adam Minkoff, Ben Perowsky,
I hadn’t planned to go to Mexico City. After my flight to Rome was delayed 30 hours, I abandoned my original plans and spontaneously bought same-day tickets to Mexico City on December 29. I had heard rumors about the vibrant improvised music scene there, but had never experienced it first hand, so I asked for
Ton-Klami (Midori Takada, Kang Tae Hwan, Masahiko Satoh) – Prophecy of Nue (No Business, 2017) Bobby Bradford & Hafez Modirzadeh with Ken Filiano & Royal Hartigan – Live at the Magic Triangle (No Business, 2017) Andrew Lamb, Warren Smith, Arkadijus Gotesmanas – The Sea of Modicum (No Business, 2017) Adam Rudolph – Morphic Resonances (Meta Records, 2017) Mike Reed
Thief – Graft (Drops Music, 2017) Tatsuya Nakatani – Confirmation (Taiga, 2015) [vinyl] Kris Davis & Craig Taborn – Octopus (Pyroclastic Records, 2017) Nicole Mitchell – Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE Records, 2017) Happening: A Movement in 12 Acts (ESP, 2012)
New Perspectives on Improvised Music Guest Writer: Sammi Qu-Kwok I thought the time would never come, but lo and behold, on the last Thursday night of October, I finally found time to attend a live concert. The band in question was “The Universal Melody Brass Band”. So dressed in many layers, I made the trek out to
