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Always on tour, here are some of Scott’s latest gigs:
8/31/04 Palo Alto, CA Stoa Restaurant
3750 Fabian Way
650-424-3900
´plays monk´-Ben Goldberg, Devin Hoff, Scott Amendola
7-10pm — no cover — All Ages
Ben Goldberg-clarinet
Devin Hoff-contrabass
Scott Amendola-drums
playing the music of Thelonious Monk
9/7/04 Los Angeles, CA Club Tropical
8641 Washington Blvd.
310-559-1127
The Nels Cline Singers-Record Release Party!
8pm — $10 / $5 with student ID — All […]

There’s little classical left on the radio, even on satellite radio, and what is available tends toward the mundane. An article argues that with a little effort, tons of great classical can be found on the web.

Basta is reissuing some very interesting early material, from Raymond Scott’s big band / jazz meanderings from the 1930’s, to a 4CD set of electronic music from the Netherlands entitled ‘POPULAR ELECTRONICS: Early Dutch Electronic Music from Philips Laboratories’.

A few words are written about Ligeti.

The latest set of reviews from DMG is available.

The AEoC is back at it with a new album on Pi titled ‘Sirius Calling’ as well as a 2CD live recording from 1993.

He’s trained with Messiaen, performed Ligeti’s complete works for piano, worked with Boulez…Pierre-Laurent Aimard is featured in an article.

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A live performance of Thinking Plague from 2000 is getting officially released on Sept. 28.

SGM’s latest now has a blurb and track listing.

Metroactive has a couple of new articles on The Industrial Jazz Group and One Ring Zero.

Additional information about Yerba Buona’s upcoming modern classical showcases is now available.

A recent article discusses a composer put to death by the Nazis and efforts to get his pieces performed. This leads to a bigger question: how many 20th and 21st century musicians are unknown essentially because of geo-political reasons?

A clip from a Sleepytime Gorilla Museum live performance is available.

The (in)famous Ben Watson (think ‘Poodle Play’) has written a book the iconoclastic Bailey. Read on for the review.