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ImprovNotes June 2015 Artist of the Month: Anthony Braxton
June 4 saw the 70th birthday of American composer/improviser Anthony Braxton. Born in Chicago in 1945, Braxton first came to attention with his solo saxophone record For Alto in 1969.…
The Black Atlantic Reconsidered
McGill-Queen’s University Press has released a new book by IICSI research collaborator Winfried Siemerling, of the University of Waterloo. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of…
L’Année Jean Derome
As this issue of Improv Notes is being written and assembled in southwestern Ontario, to the east our neighbours in Québec are entering a new year— l’Année Jean Derome, celebrating the…
FREE AT FIRST: The Audacious Journey of the AACM
This year, Chicago is enjoying city-wide concert presentations to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). As part of these celebrations, from January 19…
AUMI McGill
The Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI) project is profiled in the following French-language video on their partnered project with the Mackay Centre School, a Montreal-based school for children with motor, speech,…
Canadian Musicians On Tour
To celebrate the release of his new CD “Ghosts,” Ottawa trumpeter Craig Pedersen toured Montreal, Kitchener, Peterborough, Toronto, Guelph and Hamilton in April with his quartet of Linsey Wellman, alto…
ImprovNotes May 2015 Artist of the Month: Judith Malina (1926 – 2015)
This spring, the director and actor Judith Malina passed away at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in New Jersey, at the age of 88. When they founded The Living Theatre…
Anthony Braxton in Alabama
From Tuscaloosa, Andrew Raffo reports that composer/saxaphonist/philosopher Anthony Braxton was artist-in-residence at the University of Alabama in February. The residency included “Falling River Music,” a showing of Braxton’s graphic music…
ImprovNotes April 2015 Artist of the Month: Margaret Dragu
Born in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1953, Margaret Dragu began her dance career studying under Dada-influenced Yone Kvietys Young of Calgary, and Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis in New York City.…
