Multi-reed artist, composer, and Arkansas native Keefe Jackson is one of the leading lights of the ever-burgeoning, always fertile Chicago improvised music scene. Also a me…
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Lithuanian keyboardist Vyacheslav Ganelin was the leader of the Ganelin Trio, the first avant-garde jazz ensemble from the Soviet Union to achieve notoriety on the other si…
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It's hard to believe that more than ten years have passed since guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil burst on on to the avant-jazz scene with two remarkable recordings released almost…
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"Piccoli Numeri" ('Small Numbers') is a rather unassuming sort of title for a jazz CD, but it fits right in with Walter Beltrami's less-is-more approach. His bandmates incl…
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10 Jul
Vu-Tet by Cuong Vu
Trumpeter and composer Cuong Vu has been a stalwart on the Downtown NYC scene since his arrival in the mid-1990s. A veteran of numerous genre-bending musical projects that …
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