Avant Music News

As reported a while back, Pocket Orchestra will be released by MIO.

The Pocket Orchestra were an incredible and, until now, undiscovered “avant progressive” group that came to being in the American southwest in the late ’70s. The sextet started in Phoenix, AZ, and continued to play together into the early 1980s. Known as […]

Vandermark provides some interesting insight (and good listening skills) when The Wire plays him a number of pieces sight unseen.

A brief summary of Coleman’s career is available.

A Kronos Quartet performance is reviewed.

Ives’ Symphony No. 2 will be featured by the San Diego Symphony.

Over 100 percussionists will be playing a Xenakis piece, among other things:

Professor Charles Dowd will conduct the Oregon Percussion Ensemble in “NUAGE! Xenakis, Oliveros & Kupferman,” a program of 20th and 21st century avant-garde music.
The program, featuring more than 100 percussion instruments, will be performed at 8 p.m. Monday in Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. […]

Cryptogramophone’s release plans for the Spring are:

Early Spring 2005 will see new CDs by pianist Alan Pasqua with Peter Erskine on drums and Darek Oles on bass, and “Cloud Plate” a recording featuring Alex Cline, Kaoru, Miya Masaoka, and G.E. Stinson. Late Spring promises new projects by Mark Dresser and Denman Maroney, and Scott Amendola’s […]

ReR’s latest releases include:

Charming Hostess: Punch
Cutler, Chris: Twice Around the Earth (an experiment in listening)
Drake, Bob: The Shunned Country
Martusciello, Elio: Unoccupied Areas

Intakt has announced the following release:

MONK’S CASINO
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THELONIOUS MONK
Arranged by Alexander von Schlippenbach, Axel Dörner, Rudi Mahall
Alexander von Schlippenbach: Piano
Axel Dörner: Trumpet
Rudi Mahall: Bassclarinet
Jan Roder: Bass
Rudi Jenessen: Drums

A review of the new David S. Ware live 3CD set is available.

ESP Disk has announced the following releases:

Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
Albert Ayler - Live on the Riviera
Sun Ra - Heliocentric Worlds Volume 3
Sun Ra - Heliocentric Worlds Volumes 1 & 2
Pharoah Sanders - Pharoah’s First

Today’s DMG Newsletter contains reviews of the new Tzadiks, ReRs, and many more.

Quite a few cool pictures of Magma from 1979 are available.

A new Stockhausen work, based around to hours of the day, will soon debut.

The upcoming Banlieues Bleues Festival will be featuring a number of artistis: David Murray, Joe McPhee, Anthony Braxton, Louis Sclavis, Otomo Yoshihide, Spring Heel Jack, Evan Parker, Wadada Leo Smith, Fred Anderson, Marc Ribot, Henry Grimes, Steve Coleman, and many others.