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Charles Tyler was an innovative musician who could unfurl a maelstrom of ideas from just a spark.

Since he was neither as gonzo as Lester Bangs nor as infuriatingly smarty-pants as Robert Christgau, music critic Gary Giddins never attracted the same attention as did his contemporaries in rock-writing circles.

Charles Tolliver leads a modernist 16 piece big band that pushes the envelope of contemporary orchestral jazz sounds.

The world has lost another tie to the original New Thing jazz: bassist and composer Norris Jones, better known as Sirone, has died in Berlin, Germany.

It's not easy to get on Leo Records. The U.K. label, founded 30 years ago by Leo Feigin, is a bastion of the avant-jazz/improv scene, releasing Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Sun Ra and Eugene Chadbourne.

As Nat Hentoff notes in the original liner notes to this album, pianist Cecil Taylor had scant few chances to record or even perform live during his formative years in the late 1950's and early '60's. So he had quite an opportunity in the mid '60's to record a few albums for Blue Note Records, including this influential LP where he improvises with ...

The year 2009 could be a rather big year for tenor saxophonist and improvising composer David S. Ware, and that's saying a lot.

The 15th album in 482 Records' Document Chicago Series, Get In To Go Out is the debut of pianist Paul Giallorenzo's quintet.

The American saxophonist Joe Lovano is one of the musicians scheduled to appear at the Akbank Jazz Festival in Istanbul.

The in-house gag about this show was that we were ready to work at the BRT simply because it never wanders off brasileira & exotica, albeit a few breathers of downtempo jazz from Cecil Taylor and Marc Copland.

SOURCE: All About Jazz Publicity The 36th edition of Follow The Sound will run from September 30 - October 4 in Antwerp.

John first fell under the spell of free jazz in the 1970s when he wistfully regarded the loft jazz scene from afar More about John .

John first fell under the spell of free jazz in the 1970s when he wistfully regarded the loft jazz scene from afar More about John .

Recorded live in concert at the Willisau Jazz Festival on August 30, 1979, The Long March documents another of drummer Max Roach 's historic duo collaborations with the leaders of the jazz avant-garde. This stellar date with tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp follows Streams of Consciousness , with pianist Abdullah Ibrahim , and Birth and Rebirth , ...

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives March 18, 1965, Vol. X, No.

Emigre radio presenter and record label owner Leo Feigin pictured on a visit to St.

Cecil Taylor "Bemsha Swing" Still riding the high of the incredible set I saw him play with Tony Oxley, I recently got this record from 1956 and was knocked sideways to hear him covering Thelonious Monk.

He was a widely admired, veteran bop pianist when the new free-jazz ideas of Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor and others led him to explore the new music in the early 1960s.

Internationally acclaimed artists will gather in A stanbul for the Akbank 19th International Jazz Festival, which will run from Oct.

Henry Grimes and Friends in Concert: A Benefit for Harlem Textile Works at the Black Box Theater, Harlem On Saturday, September 12th, 'O9, visionary jazz musician Henry Grimes , along with his esteemed band mates Andrew Lamb and Michael Wimberly , will present a benefit concert for Harlem Textile Works at the Black Box Theatre, 3O8 West 133rd St.