portfolio of jazz writing
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Reviews | |
 | Cecil Taylor, Joe Morris and Daniel Levin, Joe McPhee: Beholding the Brilliance It is these stellar moments that we will remember and carry with us... more... |
 | Matthew Shipp & Strings: Growing from Inside Out Creation begins in the most internal constitution of the creator. Whatever language the creator uses to describe something outside, that person is correlating an assortment of givens with the dynamics that animate them... more... |
| Peter Brötzmann and Han Bennink: Releasing the Rigor Dipping into the Meetinghouse in Amherst, MA, on a multi-city tour, reedsman Peter Brötzmann and drummer Han Bennink paired up for a performance that projected a dynamic rarely experienced in the music... more... |
| Touring the World of Piano: Three Concerts in February February 3, 10, and 17 - Three solo piano concerts came fast and furiously one week after the other in February to the Northampton, MA, Center for the Arts... more... |
| Peter Brötzmann Tentet: Stimulating the Space To the uninitiated audience, a performance by the Peter Brötzmann Tentet may seem cacophonous, potentially unendurable and incomprehensible... more... |
| Suzie Ibarra: Routing Out Roots Susie Ibarra's recent project with Electric Kulintang speaks of her upbringing within a community of Filipinos... more... |
| Dave Burrell: Bathing in Burrell The Northampton, Massachusetts Center for the Arts was the venue for the last of three concerts in the annual "A World of Piano Series"... more... |
| William Parker & Hamid Drake: Tumbling Through the Tone World In the last concert of the year's Solos and Duos Series produced by the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center, two of the most celebrated creative music improvisors performed one set for about two hours... more... |
| Bill Frisell: Freewheeling Frisell In a rare live performance, Bill Frisell & his Trio played to a standing room only audience, some of whom came from over 100 miles away, at the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA on November 17... more... |
| Anthony Braxton & Pauline Oliveros: A Well of Intimacy It had been raining. In the west toward the Hudson Valley, the sun broke through... more... |
| Brad Mehldau: In His Element In His Trio We only live once. And for some, to be able to experience pianist Brad Mehldau in his Trio with Larry Grenadier on bass and Jorge Rossy on drums more than once is surely a blessing... more... |
| Trio X: Epiphanies of Between For the closing concert of the season of the Boston Creative Music Alliance, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Joe McPhee and Trio X performed two sets... more... |
Interviews | |
| Portraying Persona - An Interview with Mat Maneri For a long time, I can't be specific, Mat Maneri's playing has fascinated me... more... |
| Spanning the Vibrations - Another Interview with Matthew Shipp Origins originate from a phenomenon other than birth... more... |
| In the spring of 2002, the cover story of Signal to Noise Magazine was DJ SPOOKY MEETS MATTHEW SHIPP. Matthew Shipp is a terrific musician, one of the outstanding piano improvisors and an acquaintance... more... |