Avant Music News

The latest issue of Paris Transatlantic has the usual bunch of high quality reviews.

Innova has released a book about Harry Partch as well as a new CD from Mark Applebaum.

Just a few notes on some rather minor site enhancements.
We now have a custom URL / bookmark icon. You should see it right now in the URL bar on your browser. You can also re-bookmark this page to have it appear in your bookamrks list. Yeah, its just our yellow logo compressed to […]

Dusted reviews the latest from Mike Ladd.

An article covers the many alternatives available to owning CDs.

Bassist John Lindberg will be playin with Wadada Leo Smith, Kevin Norton and others over the next few months.

12/1
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
Merkin Hall
NYC
12/2
Wadada Leo Smith/John Lindberg Duo
An Die Musik
Baltimore, MD
12/3
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
Iron Gate Theatre
Philadelphia, PA
12/7
Kevin Norton’s S.O.S.
Roulette
NYC
2006
1/29
Kevin Norton Trio
Mahwah Public Library
Mahwah, NJ
Spring-Fall
John Lindberg/Kevin Norton Quartet
Northeast/Midwest Tour
Premiere: 2/24
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A few new reviews from Bagatellen.

Agustí Fernández & Mats Gustafsson – Critical Mass - 28 Nov 05
Broken Hands/Lucky Rabbit - Lucky Hands - 27 Nov 05
Two with Nakatani - 25 Nov 05
Dave Fox - Dedication Suite - 23 Nov 05
Bob Bellerue/ halfnormal - Threat Level Charlie - 23 Nov 05

The Claudia Quintet is kicking off this tour tonight.

November 26-December 10 The Claudia Quintet European Tour
28.11 WIST Graz, AUSTRIA
29.11 Unterfahrt Munich, GERMANY
30.11 Object 5 Halle, GERMANY
01.12 A-Trane Berlin, GERMANY
02.12 Nuremberg, GERMANY
03.12 Vienna???
05.12 Eindhoven
06.12 Dortmund
08.12 Bimhuis Amsterdam, HOLLAND
09.12 Bielefeld, GERMANY
10.12 Offenbach, GERMANY

The latest from these fine gentlemen has been reviewed.

Review of the week from One Final Note:

21 November 2005
:. Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra Not in Our Name (Verve) by John Eyles
:. Alberto Pinton Quintet Motionemotion (Moserobie) by Jay Collins
:. Malaby/Opsvik/Davis Tone Collector (Jazzaway) by Troy Collins
:. Gerald Wilson Orchestra In My Time (Mack Avenue) by David Dupont
:. Blairman/Schönborn/Simpson Like Back in the Days […]

AMN was down for a few hours this morning due to a DNS problem at our ISP that made our database unreachable. Apparently this issue has been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Drummer Mike Pride is playing with te best from New York and beyond.

Tuesday, November 29 10pm
-theMP3-
Mary Halvorson- guitar
Ken Filiano- bass
Mike Pride- drums, compositions
With: Dom Minasi Trio @ 9pm.
$ donation only
(Freddy’s Bar & Grill, Brooklyn NY (Dean St. @ 6th Ave.))
Tuesday, November 29 11pm
-Mike Pride’s IXTLAN-
Chris Welcome- guitar
Shayna Dulberger- bass
Mike Pride- drums
My NEW trio! I am […]

An interview with Bernard Stollman, the founder of ESP-Disk, is available.

Yet another study (albiet academic) on how file sharing hurts some but helps others. What I would like to see at this point is a similar study conducted with respect to labels that put their music online with and without DRM. For example, I might not spend $17 on a new CD when […]

Prism Quartet is a sax quartet focused on new music. Their site includes a long group bio, discography and concert listings.