Avant Music News

Yet another review, this one by Slate Magazine.

Ornette Coleman has long been a puzzle to casual jazz fans, his name as baffling as his music, which seems to go everywhere and nowhere. If jazz is the “sound of surprise,” as Whitney Balliett once wrote, then Ornette, at first hearing, is the sound of shock and […]

Highlights from the November schedule for this Baltimore venue.

An die Musik LIVE!
A Classical, Jazz & World Music Concert Venue
409 N. Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21201
www.AndieMusikLIVE.com
(410) 385-2638
Voted Baltimore’s Best Jazz Venue 2005 by Baltimore Magazine and Baltimore
City Paper
ANNOUNCING OUR NOVEMBER 2006 CONCERT LINE-UP
We are pleased to send you this month’s concert schedule. Be sure to […]

From AAJ:

31-Oct-06 Kaufmann / Moore / Van der Schyff
Kamosc (Red Toucan Records)
31-Oct-06 Brian Allen / Tony Malaby / Tom Rainey
Synapse (Braintone Records)
30-Oct-06 Herculaneum
Orange Blossom (482 Music)
29-Oct-06 Harry Miller’s Isipingo
Which Way Now (Cuneiform Records)
29-Oct-06 Francois Couturier
Nostalghia - Song for Tarkovsky (ECM Records)

Nuscope has a set of releases out.

Sten Sandell - Solid Musik
Georg Graewe - Fantasiestücke
2nd Outlet (Houtkamp / Fuhler / Blume) - Burnt Sienna
Kaufmann / Gratkowski / de Joode - Unearth
Vinkeloe / Smith / Nordeson - Elegans

TMM 2006 takes place this weekend (somehow this slipped through the cracks here at AMN…) The program looks as awesome as you might expect.

Thursday, November 2, 2006, 7.30 pm
TRIO NAMTCHYLAK / PARKER / DRAKE (TUVA/USA)
Sainkho Namtchylak voice
William Parker bass
Hamid Drake dr, perc
Sainkho Namtchylak, vocalist, performance artist, sound poet. Born in Kyzyl/Tuva, member of the national […]

From Intakt Records:

Intakt CD 112
OMRI ZIEGELE BILLIGER BAUER
Edges & friends
Intakt CD 118
LUCAS NIGGLI BIG ZOOM
Celebrate Diversity
Intakt CD115 + Intakt CD 116
Alexander von Schlippenbach
Piano Solo • Twelve Tone Tales • Vol 1
Piano Solo • Twelve Tone Tales • Vol 2
Intakt CD 113
BAUER - GUMPERT - PETROWSKY - SOMMER
ZENTRALQUARTETT
11 Songs – Aus Teutschen Landen
Conrad Bauer: Trombone
Ulrich Gumpert: […]

From Chicago’s Umbrella Music:

Wednesday, 1 November 2006
The Hideout
10:00 PM | Baker/Williams/Ra
Jim Baker - piano & ARP synthesizer
Mars Williams - reeds
Avreeayl Ra - drums & percussion
two sets
$6 cover
PLUS | DJ Sets
TBA
Thursday, 2 November 2006
Elastic
10:00 PM | Giallorenzo/Stein/Rosaly Trio
Paul Giallorenzo - piano
Jason Stein - bass clarinet
Frank Rosaly - drums
11:00 PM | The Friction Brothers
Michael Colligan - reeds/dry […]

From Dusted:

Artist: The Melvins
Album: A Senile Animal
Label: Ipecac
Review date: Oct. 29, 2006
Artist: Trio X
Album: Roulette at Location One
Label: Cadence Jazz
Review date: Oct. 25, 2006

A review of this Geggie/Taborn show is available.

Geggie’s first show for the 2006/07 season, labeled “A Little Avant-Garde—Very Musical,” was aptly titled and as good an example of his ability to mold into any musical setting as any. Craig Taborn—the ubiquitous keyboardist whose encyclopedic knowledge has made him a perfect fit for artists including saxophonists […]

A recent Brotzmann and Bennink show is reviewed.

The New York Times reviews a recent performance of Zorn’s eclectic music.

A concert programmer trying to present a musical portrait of John Zorn, the eclectic and prolific downtown composer and saxophonist, must feel like a painter who finds his model metamorphosed each time he looks up from the canvas.
But Thursday’s Composer Portraits concert at the […]

A handful of reviews from KZSU:

Your Tenant Is Dead - Shearer, Jason/Mike Khoury
Ellen’s Bar - Berthiaume/Donato/Tanguay
Lontano - Stanko, Tomasz Quartet
A Discontinuous Line - Vandermark 5, The
Sequence - Dijkstra, Jorrit/John Hollenbeck

Lots of great bands review at this year’s Lisbon Jazz em Agosto.

Catching up with OkkaDisk from the last few months.

FME
Montage
Territory Band-5
New Horse for the White House
Paul Lytton
Ken Vandermark
Philipp Wachsmann
CINC

Paradigm has a set of new releases.

Gravity Adjusters Expansion Band - One
total time 54′22″
Released 2006
Although the Gravity Adjusters Expansion Band (GAEB) started in 1967 they remain one of the long lost and underestimated groups that explored the areas of sound sculpture, improvisation, experimental music and free jazz. The group have their roots in playing in […]