Primary Scene: Chicago Born in Warwick, Rhode Island on September 22, 1964, Ken Vandermark began studying the tenor saxophone at the age of 16. Since graduating with a degree in Film and Communications from McGill University during the spring of 1986, his primary creative emphasis has been the exploration of contemporary music that deals directly
Primary Scene: Brooklyn/New York Brooklyn, NY (USA) based sound artist/composer Fay Victor hones a unique vision for the vocalist’s role in jazz and improvised music. Victor encompasses a distinctive vocalizing, language and performing approach with the foundation of the jazz vocal idiom, now encompassing an “everything is everything” aesthetic bringing in references that span the
Primary Scene: Brooklyn/New York (2007-17) Composer/bandleader Mark Taylor has been commissioned to compose for theatre, dance, and the concert stage. In addition to several new chamber works, including “3 Songs About Puppetry” (commissioned by John A. Putnam, principal Hornist of the Michigan Symphony), Mark has just written and recorded the score for “Last Days of Coney Island”,
Primary Scene: Brooklyn/New York Reedist Anna Webber, a Brooklynite by way of British Columbia, is one of the most exciting new arrivals on the New York avant-garde jazz scene in the past couple years. …her detail-rich writing recalls the work of elders as disparate as Tim Berne and Henry Threadgill, and her busy motion evokes
Primary Scene: Brooklyn/New York Federico Ughi is a drummer and composer based in New York. Federico Ughi’s music infuses the New York avant-garde sound with a sense of melody inspired by the Italian classical and folk traditions of his childhood in Rome. Ornette Coleman has been a major influence for Federico as well as a mentor. Born in Rome, Italy Federico
Primary Scene: Brooklyn/New York Chris Welcome is a guitarist, composer and electronic musician based in New York. He has recorded for Delmark, AUM Fidelity, New Atlantis, Talking Skull, and Tiger Asylum records. He has performed throughout North America and Europe, notably at the Tusk Festival (UK), Jazzwerkstadt (Swiss), Sonic Circuits (D.C.) and XFest (MA). As
Primary Scene: Brooklyn/New York Weasel Walter (first name, last name) is a Brooklyn, New York based multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser best known for leading the seminal punk-jazz/no-wave/brutal-prog band The Flying Luttenbachers between 1991 and 2007 on 16 full-length releases. Seamlessly uniting the intensity and abstraction of improvised music with the nihilist aesthetics of extreme rock
Primary Scene: Brooklyn/New York Wooley is one of the leading trumpet players of his generation, having engineered a new vocabulary on the instrument all his own. Originally from Oregon, he grew up playing trumpet professionally together with his father in west coast big bands at the age of thirteen. After studying in Colorado, Wooley moved to
