Friday, October 30, 2009

Weightless, A Free Quartet in a New Recording

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Of all the instruments to play, the piano is one that poses particular challenges. You sit down to it and all the notes are available to you...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

The Tenor Sax, Bass Clarinet and Flute of Nobuyasu Furuya

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You can depend upon Clean Feed Records consistently to come up with interesting releases in the advanced free improv jazz genre. That doesn...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Baird Hersey's Extraordinary Music for Voice I

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A little while ago on this blog a question was raised about Baird Hersey. "Whatever happened to him?" someone asked in the comment...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Lin Halliday, A Tragically Underappreciated Tenorman

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Lin Halliday played the hell out of the tenor sax. He passed away in 2000, after a career that, because of health problems and an erratic li...
Monday, October 26, 2009

The Music of Michael Daugherty II

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Michael Daugherty's music seems to be widely performed on the concert circuit these days. Perhaps that's so for two reasons: a.) His...
Friday, October 23, 2009

The Orchestral Music of Michael Daugherty

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We live in a pluralistic world. In the visual arts today, for example, no one style holds absolute sway. Traverse the galleries this autumn ...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Encyclopedia of Concentration Camp Composers

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KZ Musik is in the process of issuing a comprehensive CD series covering music written from 1933 to 1945, the Encyclopedia of Music Composed...