Avant Music News

There’s a joke that went around some months ago that the current generation in their late teens to late twenties get most of their news from the Internet and the Daily Show, rather than the traditional outlets of print and television. Being at least 10 years too old to fit into that category age-wise, I […]

eMusic interviews Ornette Coleman as a 2006 innovator.

Zappa Wiki Jawaka is a Wiki dedicated to Frank Zappa. It’s huge, and an excellent resource.

SoundExchange has openings for participants in masterclasses with Pauline Oliveros, Roscoe Mitchell and Simar Chatterjee. Diapason has posted some events for January. The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom have been given a grant by the Zappa family. Finally, Kyle Gann blogs about the difficulties of genre-mashing.

If you’re in San Antonio, don’t miss the opportunity to see two greats in January.

Ictus has re-packaged a large umber of their releases into deluxe boxed sets.

Gazzelloni from Yoshihide is reviewed.

Coming next month at Chicago’s Velvet:

12/31: Isaiah Spencer with Ernest Dawkins and Karl E. H. Seigfried from 8-10:30. Nicole’s Black Earth Ensemble will play from 11-2a.m.
1/2: Jason Adasiewicz’s Rolldown with Josh Berman, Jeb Bishop, Jason Roebke, and Frank Rosaly
1/3: Dave Rempis, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten, Frank Rosaly
1/4: David Young (trumpet) Quintet
1/5: Ernest Dawkins’ Tribute […]

This is the second of several AMN podcasts featuring strange music that might at first blush be mistaken to be more conventional.

This is the first of several AMN podcasts featuring strange music that might at first blush be mistaken to be more conventional.

From AAJ:

30-Dec-06 Huntsville
For the Middle Class (Rune Grammofon)
29-Dec-06 Satoko Fujii Four
When We Were There (Polystar)

Another top ten of 2006 from this respected blog.

Weasel Walter has put together a fine group for a new release.

Weasel Walter Quartet - Revolt Music CD
More than an hour of blistering high energy free jazz featuring Weasel Walter on drums with Damon Smith and Randy Hunt (basses), John Gruntfest, Aram Shelton and Josh Allen (saxophones) and Henry Kaiser (guitar). It’s a quartet, so […]

Mode has released a CD of Scelsi orchestral pieces.

January’s schedule from New York’s Tonic:

Mon, Jan 01
The Bunker presents Blood and Thunder from 10am - 4am
Tue, Jan 02
TBA
Wed, Jan 03
8pm Uncle Monk (feat. Tommy Ramone) plus Radio I-Ching plus Who Put the Bad Mouth On Me?
8:30pm Pure Fire in the ))sub((tonic lounge
Thu, Jan 04
8pm DJ High Priest plus Bunny Rabbit plus Nomi
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