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Randy Weston’s playing has stylistic nods to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk (paying tribute to both on his portrait albums), and yet he is very much an innovator of the jazz…

Pauline Oliveros’ groundbreaking “Reverberations: Tape + Electronic Music 1961-1980” box set is in need of a re-press. Pauline Oliveros’ Reverberations: Tape + Electronic Music 1961-1970 12CD box set has been…

Pianist Matthew Shipp is a contemporary iconoclast of the jazz tradition; his music embodies the jazz cadences of pianists like Monk and Evans, brilliantly filtered through his unique musical personality…

How can theories of improvisation re-imagine and redefine the roles of intellectuals? How can a theory be activated by an improvising subject and directed into tangible and meaningful action? What are the…

Rebecca Jenkins and Her Trio, Live at the Cellar was recorded in February 2014 at The Cellar in Vancouver. Bakan is the partner of Jenkins and the album features their son Myim on drums, and Bruce Meikle…

Oral Histories is a showcase of interviews, performances, and articles by and about improvising musicians, artists, writers and scholars. This monthly feature offers an intimate look inside the minds and practices…

Please join us in congratulating Mark Laver (ICASP Postdoctoral Fellow 2011-13) who has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Music (Jazz) at Grinnell College (Iowa, U.S.). His research…

University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, September 3-5, 2014  “The future is always here in the past” -Amiri Baraka, “Jazzmen: Diz & Sun Ra” The Guelph Jazz Festival, in conjunction…

Phil Minton is a free jazz and improvising vocalist (and trumpeter) with a wide range of voices and extended vocal techniques. Minton is known for his theatrical baritone and his…