New Adventures in Downtown Sounds

WSJ.com features Jenny Scheinman:

A lack of rehearsal is merely a challenge for superb experimental musicians such as Ms. Scheinman, Mr. Cline and the muscular, adventurous rhythm section of Jim Black on drums and Todd Sickafoose on bass for the project the violinist calls Mischief & Mayhem. They are all members of a very loose coalition that descended from the music scene based in SoHo lofts and at the Knitting Factory on Houston Street in the late 1980s and early ’90s. Mr. Cline used the expression “not straight-ahead jazz” to describe the ground-breaking music played back then by Julius Hemphill, Tim Berne, Bill Frisell, John Zorn and others, who went beyond the door swung open by Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman and other free-jazz icons.

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