Free Jazz Blog Reviews

Joëlle Léandre

From Free Jazz:

Jason Stein’s Locksmith Isidore – Three Kinds Of Happiness (Not Two, 2010) ****1/2
Joëlle Léandre Tentet – Can You Hear Me? & Trio (Leo Records, 2011) ****½
Donny McCaslin – Perpetual Motion (Greenleaf Music, 2011)
Emergency! – Live in Copenhagen (2010, JVTlandT) ****½
Uwe Oberg & Evan Parker – Full Bloom (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010) ***
Tony Malaby’s – Tamarindo Live (Clean Feed 2010) ****½

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Newsbits

Avant-garde Metal has listed their top albums of 2010.

Gutbucket’s new album is streaming for free at Alarm Press.

A number of Xenakis performances and discussions will take place in and around (I believe) London in early April.

A recent Georg Friedrich Haas performance is reviewed.

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Touching Extremes

From Touching Extremes:

MARKUS EICHENBERGER – Halbzeit
PAVEL BORODIN – Unlimited 23: A Documentary About Music Unlimited Festival 2009
BJ NILSEN & STILLUPPSTEYPA – Man From Deep River
JESSICA PAVONE – Army Of Strangers
MENDEL KAELEN – Remembering What Was Forgotten

AMN Podcast: Odean Pope – Universal Sounds

FIMAV 2011

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This year’s Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville lineup has been partially announced, and it is wonderful as you might expect:

THE EX & BRASS UNBOUND
With Mats Gustafsson, Roy Paci
Ken Vandermark and Wolter Wierbos
(Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, USA) NAP

KOICHI MAKIGAMI
« Tokyo Taiga »
(Japan, Russia) NAP

KID KOALA
« 12 Bit Blues Show »
(Quebec) WP

RICHARD PINHAS
MERZBOW / WOLF EYES
(France, Japan, USA) WP

PETER BRÖTZMANN @ 70
Solo + Trio
With Paal Nilssen-Love
and Massimo Pupillo
(Germany, Sweden, Italy) NAP

ANTHONY BRAXTON
« Echo Echo Mirror House »
With Taylor Ho Bynum
Jessica Pavone, Mary Halvorson
Jay Rozen, Carl Testa and Aaron Siegel
(USA) NAP

IG HENNEMAN SEXTET
With Ab Baars, Axel Dörner
Lori Freedman, Wilbert de Joode
and Marilyn Lerner
(Netherlands, Germany, Quebec, Canada) NAP

COMICOPERANDO:
Music of ROBERT WYATT
With Dagmar Krause
Annie Whitehead, Karen Mantler
Michel Delville
John Edwards and Chris Cutler
(England, France, USA) NAP

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Upcoming in Seattle

Annie Gosfield

From Seattle’s Wayward Music:

THU. 2/17, 8 PM – Seattle Phonographers Union honors the recent passing of German sound artist Rolf Julius with a surround environment of small sounds on localized and mobile playback systems

FRI. 2/18, 8 PM – Nonsequitur presents Frances-Marie Uitti, music for solo cello with multiple bows by Salvatore Sciarrino, Jonathan Harvey, Huang Rao, Lisa Bielawa, Annie Gosfield, Gyorgy Kurtag, and F-M Uitti

SAT. 2/19, 8 PM – Jherek Bischoff presents ten new works for the large Ambient Chamber Orchestra

COMING UP:

THU. 3/1 – vocalist Joy Von Spain and friends

FRI. 3/4 – Seattle Composers’ Salon present an evening with Wayne Horvitz

SAT. 3/5 – Brad Sherman

THU. 3/10 – Seattle Chamber Players

FRI. 3/11 – Christopher DeLaurenti

FRI. 3/18, 7 PM – Hollow Earth Radio’s Magma Festival: Mecca Normal, Sue Ann Harkey, Ô Paon

SAT. 3/19, 7 PM – Hollow Earth Radio’s Magma Festival: Michael Hurley, Jason Dodson, Shana Cleveland & the Sand Castles

FRI. 3/25 – Kris Hartung

SAT. 3/26 – Rik Wright’s Zen Tornado + Iron Kim Style

WED. 3/30 – Beth Fleenor and friends

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James Falzone To Perform At Chicago’s Myopic Books And Experimental Sound Studio In March

From Improvised Communications:

Chicago-based clarinetist/composer James Falzone has two very different hometown concerts scheduled for March.

On Monday, March 14th at 7:30 p.m., Falzone and saxophonist Dave Rempis will perform together a duo for the first time as part of the Experimental Music Mondays series at Myopic Books.

Later that same week, on Saturday, March 19th, the Outer Ear series at Experimental Sound Studio will present Falzone’s innovative solo work, “Sighs Too Deep For Words”, featuring clarinet, prepared clarinet, ritual bells and ambient sounds.

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