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From 23five:

23five Incorporated is proud to present two new publications for 2008 — Brendan Murray’s Commonwealth and Chop Shop’s Oxide.
Commonwealth is long form composition of sinewy tonalities and has already garnered high praise from The Wire, who commented that “Commonwealth is his most confident statement yet, and his most explicit engagement with the minimalist tradition. […]

A Vision Festival show this weekend.

VISION/RUCMA Series 2008 @ the Living Theatre
Friday May 2
Matana Roberts Solo Works for Sean Bell
Matana Roberts: Alto saxophone
Date/Time: 10:30 PM Friday, May 2nd – Matana Roberts Solo Works for Sean Bell
Place: The LES Gallery – 107 Suffolk street, in the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
[…]

From Free Jazz:

Elton Dean & The Wrong Object - The Unbelievable Truth (Moonjune Records, 2007) ****
Sylvain Guérineau - Dies Irae (Amor Fati, 2007) ****
Dans Les Arbres - Dans Les Arbres (ECM, 2008) *****
Nils Petter Molvaer - Re-Vision (Pid, 2008) ***

From Musique Machine:

To blacken the pages - A Semblance of Something appertainning to distruct
To blacken the pages are a Dublin based hypnotic guitar drone/ doom and dramatic instrumental project of one Paul McAree,which managers stand out from the pile of seemingly similar projects with it’s ability to paint effective, varied and compeling sonic mood spaces […]

Smith was profiled in anticipation of his Australian tour.

Smith is on his first tour of Australia for a series of performances and workshops. He is a leading member of Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and cut many legendary recordings with peers Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, and others.
His compositions […]

NPR Music covers the recently departed Giuffre.

WGBH, April 28, 2008 - Composer and jazz clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre died on April 24, after suffering from pneumonia and complications from Parkinson’s Disease. He was 86. Here, WGBH contributes a 28-minute history of Jimmy Giuffre, recorded in 1994 and narrated mostly by Giuffre himself.

From Improvised Communications:

On Friday, May 2nd, New Haven’s Firehouse 12 will welcome the all-star trio BassDrumBone to town for a two-set performance as part of the venue’s ongoing 2008 Spring Jazz Series. This improvised music supergroup, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2007, brings together the distinctive talents and well-established rapport of bassist and […]

Today, Avant Music News in 5 years old.
I started this blog back in 2003 on a whim. It seemed like it would be useful to have a place where news and information is posted about weird and creative music without too much spin or opinion.
The focus of the site has […]

From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET:

April 26, 2008
The Pavones, Roulette
Michael Attias, Matt Bauder, Harris Eisenstadt, Peter Evans, Jessica Pavone, Brandon Seabrook

An upcoming show from Delmark:

NEW ANNOUNCEMENT- Delmark new jazz release- The Art of Dying
Delmark recording debut as leader for Jason Ajemian (Born Heller, Chicago Underground Trio, A Cushicle, Exploding Star Orchestra, and many more!)
JASON AJEMIAN’s Smokeless Heat - Delmark CD release party on Wednesday, April 30, Heaven Gallery, Chicago
Former Chicagoans Jason Ajemian and Nori Tanaka […]

Dave Douglas is doing something I really like and expect to see a lot more of in the future from other artists. That is, releasing live recordings within hours of their performance.
Sure, you still have to buy them, but these “real time” live albums seem to be all the rage. […]

From AAJ:

28-Apr-08 Cuong Vu
Vu-tet (ArtistShare)
Reviewed by Budd Kopman
27-Apr-08 Hartsaw / Aspelin / Smith / Bryerton
Ausfegen. Dedicated To Joseph Beuys (Balance Point Acoustics)
Reviewed by Nic Jones
27-Apr-08 Skyphone
Avellaneda (Rune Grammofon)
Reviewed by John Kelman

DC’s Electric Possibility puts on a show next week.

These are *early* shows from 8:00-10:30pm
Cost only $5–All money goes to the artists!
LOCATION:
Phillips Hall,
801 22nd St, NW,
Rm B120 (in the basement)
(22nd and H Streets/GW Metro)
George Washington University
NEW TECHNOLOGY, NEW SPIRIT, NEW ENERGY, NEW MUSIC
May 4–Three Flavors of Electro-acoustic free improvisation with Angus Brainpan […]

Zorn et. al. played for the New Music Now series.

Thursday night featured John Zorn and his compositions in the debut concert of “New Music Now,” a series of jazz performances curated by musician-composers (and Zorn affiliates) Mark Feldman and Ned Rothenberg. The series marks the first serious effort to bring live jazz to the new […]

From DMG:

Larry Ochs & Orkestrova 2 CD Set, Mike Osborne Qts, 3 from Michael Moore’s Ramboy, 4 from ECM: Marilyn Crispell & Jon Balke Solo pianos, Jacob Young & Bjornstad/Rypdal, 3 from Not Two: Cosmosamatics, Jeb Bishop Trio,
Joe Morris/Jim Hobbs/Luther Gray, 4 from Slam: Lol Coxhill, George Haslam & Paul Hession, Gunter Hampel 2 DVD […]