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Oral Histories Project: Muhal Richard Abrams, George E. Lewis, & Roscoe Mitchell
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…
CFP: Improvising Across Borders
The Center for Improvised Arts, Performance and Research, which is sponsored by the Agosto Foundation, invites proposals for papers and presentations at Improvising Across Borders (IAB 2014), an inter-disciplinary festival and symposium…
ImprovNotes January 2014 Artist of the Month: Sex Mob
Sex Mob is a New York City jazz group, which initially began as a way to feature the slide trumpet of leader Steven Bernstein. Since then the band, as Bernstein’s…
UoG’s spotlight on David Lee
PhD candidate and ICASP GRA David Lee looks at how improvisation brings musicians together Books, more books, and a double bass: That’s what confronts a visitor to David Lee’s office…
ICASP GRA Paul Watkins releases DJ project/album, Dedications.
Dedications is an experimental jazzy hip-hop remix project born out of a love of listening to records. The album mixes, mashes, samples, spins, cuts, signifies, rhapsodizes, poetizes, layers, collages, remixes, breaks,…
ImprovNotes December 2013 Artist of the Month: Rutherford Chang
Since little could be found out about Chang himself, other than the fact that he is an artist based in Shanghai and New York, who is known for his mathematically…
ImprovNotes November 2013 Artist of the Month: Wadada Leo Smith
Wadada Leo Smith is a trumpeter and mercurial composer working at the edges of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation. Perhaps the rightful heir to Miles Davis, Smith is…
Oral Histories Project: Thomas King
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…
Sound Check: Thomas King’s Jazz Photography
“Sound Check”: the first major exhibition of storyteller Thomas King’s jazz photography. King’s contribution to the discourse of contemporary Canadian photography focuses an acute eye and a behind-the-scenes perspective on…
