From San Diego Arts:
UC San Diego’s resident conductor Stephen Schick’s programming vision is so refreshing: he starts with a Maurice Ravel song cycle form 1913 and surrounds it with challenging works from the mid-century avant garde, Pierre Boulez and Olivier Messiaen, and then garnishes the event with new works by a pair of UCSD graduate composers.
From Monsieur Délire:
JASON ZEH & BEN GWILLIAM / Dots (Korm Plastics/Extrapool – merci à/thanks to Dense Promotion)
Z’EV & KK NULL / Extra Space, Extra Time (Korm Plastics/Extrapool – merci à/thanks to Dense Promotion)
ARTISTES VARIÉS-VARIOUS ARTISTS / A Tasty Swarm of Small Signals (Störung – merci à/thanks to Dense Promotion)
ARTISTES VARIÉS-VARIOUS ARTISTS / FMP: In Retrospect 1969-2010 (FMP)
GLOBE UNITY ORCHESTRA & GUESTS / Baden-Baden ’75 (FMP)
STEVE LACY (SOLO & QUINTET) / In Berlin 1975/77 (FMP)
VERSUS X / Point of View (Musea)
BERTRAND DENZLER / Tenor (Potlatch)
THE DORF / Le Record (Leo Records)
GUILLAUME ROY – VINCENT COURTOIS – CLAUDE TCHAMITCHIAN / Amarco (Émouvance)
NICHOLAS URIE / My Garden (Red Piano Records – merci à/thanks to Braithwaite & Katz Communications)
NEIL ROLNICK / Extended Family (Innova)
GRAHAM REYNOLDS / The Difference Engine (Innova)
POOJA GOSWAMI PAVAN / How Shall I Say? (Innova)
From Music and More:
Weasel Walter, Mary Halvorson and Peter Evans – Electric Fruit (Thirsty Ear, 2011)
Miles Davis – Bitches Brew Live (Columbia Legacy, 2011)
Image by suttonhoo via Flickr
From the Jerusalem Post:
Nicole Mitchell may not have been born in Chicago, but she has certainly embraced the Windy City’s jazz sensibilities since moving there some 20 years ago. The 43-year-old flutist will bring the energies and artistic dynamics that are unique to Chicago’s improvisational music scene to this part of the world next week February 16 at 10:30 p.m. when she performs at the Tel Aviv Jazz Festival as a member of the Indigo Trio, along with bassist Harrison Bankhead and drummer Hamid Drake.
Output:noise has three new releases out, from Output:NOISE collective document, Nr.013, Crushing Something, Repeater and The Table. Great stuff.
