Avant Music News

Sample tracks from the upcoming Cuneiform releases are available.

As usual, DMG reviews a number of new releases this week, including several from Peter Brotzmann.

The FONT will take place this coming week in New York, with performances focusing on the Tonic.

The tighening of copyright laws is impacting even classical music where the assumption is that the copyrights have passed into the public domain…read on.

From Bob’s site:
July 2004:
Susanne Lewis was here for the last half of June and we recorded 17 songs for our new Hail album. I’m mixing it now, should be finished by mid July. Expected release late 2004/early 2005; I’ll put some clips on the site once the time draws near.

The following releases are expected on Intakt:
LUCAS NIGGLI ZOOM ENSEMBLE - SWEAT
Lucas Niggli, Nils Wogram, Philipp Schaufelberger, Claudio Puntin
Phil Minton
Ensemble Für Neue Musik Zürich
Intakt CD 093 / release date: August 2004
BARRY GUY-MARILYN CRISPELL-PAUL LYTTON - ITHACA
Barry Guy: Bass, Composer
Marilyn Crispell: Piano
Paul Lytton: Drums
Intakt CD 096
KOCH-SCHÜTZ-STUDER - LIVE
Hans Koch: Saxophones
Martin Schütz: Cello, Electronics
Fredy Studer: Drums
Intakt CD […]

SFgate reviews a few modern jazz releases including:
Marilyn Crispell Trio, Storyteller
Nels Cline and Vinny Golia, The Entire Time
Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith: Yo Miles, Sky Garden
Tin Hat Trio, Book of Silk

The Jazz em Agosto festival in Portugal is featuring a number of top acts:
NOW Orchestra / George Lewis
François Houle Electro Acoustic Quartet
Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Quintet featuring Mats Gustafsson

While I have not heard anything from Ted Reichman or Mary Halvorson, they are playing at the Tonic soon, and their music sounds interesting.

Following on a previously-posted review, NPR has an audio review of Crispell’s Storyteller.

Recording engineer David Baker has passed away. Baker’s credits include thousands of sessions from most of the well-known labels in jazz.

A Perfect Sound Forever article covers some of the history of innovation in jazz and early rock and how that quickly led to the current lack thereof in anything popular. The ideas are not new but the author puts them in a different persepctive by comparing them similar occurrences in the neo-classical movement, […]

Hassell paints an emotional picture of his feelings towards the classic Miles album.

Wyatt’s Cuckooland has been nominated for this year’s Mercury Prize. Winning the Mercury Prize means…umm…not much.

DMG reviews a handful of new releases:
JIM BLACK/ALASNOAXIS - Habyor
BUCKETHEAD - Cuckoo Clocks of Hell
PETER BROTZMANN CLARINET PROJECT With JOHN ZORN/TOSHINORI KONDO/LOUIS SCLAVIS/JOHANNES BAUER/WILLIAM PARKER/TONY OXLEY et al - Berlin Djungle
GERD DUDEK/BUCSHI NIEBERGALL/EDWARD VESALA - Open
PETER BROTZMANN / MARCO ENEIDI / LISLE ELLIS / JACKSON KRALL - Live at Spruce Street Forum
TREVOR […]