Marilyn Crispell at Colony Café, Woodstock, NY

Marilyn Crispell plays tonight at the Colony Café:

This particular title scramble, however, may provoke a chuckle in anyone familiar with Crispell’s fractalized piano playing and the hash that this legendary avant-gardist makes of the conventional syntax of jazz. Crispell: Woodstock Concert (1995) The is actually a pretty tenable album name (a little staid, even) for a performer who rose to prominence accompanying Anthony Braxton, the experimental reed player/composer famous for his symbolic, non-ASCII song titles and his alternative notation systems.