William Parker – Wood Flute Songs, DiverseWorks (both sets) (AUM Fidelity, 2013) Mike Pride’s Scene Fucker #5 – The Ensemble Is an Electronic Device (Public Eyesore, 2005) Jeff Cosgrove, Matthew Shipp, William Parker – Alternating Current (Grizzley Music, 2014) Kris Davis Trio – Waiting for You to Grow (Clean Feed, 2014)
Interview with Nate Wooley conducted via email, December 2012-May 2014 CB: How did you first go about forming the Nate Wooley Quartet. Were Matt Moran, Reuben Radding, and Take Toriyama the original members? I found concert listings as early as June 2004. Did the band form shortly before that or earlier? Did the group ever
Interviews Interview: Tony Malaby Discusses His New Album, Somos Agua Interview with Nate Wooley, Part II: Early Years in New York City Videos Frikativ Quartet Live at Clemente Soto Velez (Arts for Art) breath TRIPLE sea TRIO birds Live at Clemente Soto Velez (Arts for Art) VoiceHornsBass Live at Clemente Soto Velez (Arts for Art)
Band: Fay Victor, Will Connell, Vincent Chancey, Ken Filiano Videographer: Don Mount [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8GMtiL-tVI&w=560&h=315]
Band: Nonoko Yoshido, Brian Chase, Ron Anderson Videographer: Don Mount [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUYA-WEVbOI&w=560&h=315]
Band: People (Mary Halvorson, Kyle Forester, Kevin Shea) Videographer: Don Mount [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T-8jcTeMFc&w=560&h=315]
Band: breath TRIPLE sea TRIO birds (Anias Maivel, Areni Agbabian, Daniel Carter, Claire deBrunner, Daro Behroozi) Videographer: Don Mount [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBD_OayRbLw&w=560&h=315]
Band: Frikativ Quartet (Sarah Bernstein, Scott Tixier, Mat Maneri, Rubin Kodheli) Videographer: Don Mount [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHYxc2PpUG4&w=560&h=315]
On a weekly, and often daily, basis, I have conversations with friends, email exchanges, or Facebook interactions about the decline and inevitable death of the New York new jazz scene. Many of the concerns people raise are very real: fewer opportunities to play live (and fewer that pay well), eroding audience numbers, venues closing, gentrification
William Parker – Wood Flute Songs: Anthology Live 2006-2012 [discs 1-2 of 8: William Parker Quartet at Yoshi’s, Oakland, California, sets 1-2] (AUM Fidelity, 2013) Michael Attias – Renku in Coimbra (Clean Feed, 2009) Kali Z. Fasteau – Piano Rapture: New Works on Piano (Flying Note, 2014) Max Johnson – The Prisoner (No Business, 2014)
