Source: East Bay Express…as it should.

Mills College intends to lay off seminal composer and improviser Roscoe Mitchell, due to the school’s budget crisis — and the international music community is incensed.

In May, the historic college announced emergency measures — namely, restructuring departments and jettisoning mostly tenured professors — in order to resolve a $9 million projected budget shortfall. And earlier this month, Mitchell, who’s contracted for two more years, says he was one of eleven faculty members told their employment could be over come July.

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended.

Gareth Davis / Elliott Sharp / Ensemble Resonanz – Oceanus Procellarum (2017)
Creation VI – Deus Sive Natura (2017)
Amir ElSaffar – Not Two (2017)
Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones – Astrild Astrild (2017)
Svartsinn – Collected Obscurities (2017)
Doug Wieselman Trio S – Somewhere Glimmer (2017)

Avantwhatever has released Ignaz Schick & Eliad Wagner’s Yemen Breakfast online.

A new release of rare recordings from Raymond Scott is coming soon.

Jazz Right Now reviews Jessica Ackerley’s Coalesce.

The Chicago Reader profiles guitarist Shane Parish in anticipation of his Chicago performance.

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended.

Khost – Governance (2017)
Reid Karris – Arbor Philosophica (2017)
Gaudi – Magnetic (2017)
Quinsin Nachoff – Ethereal Trio (2017)
Peregrine Falls – Peregrine Falls (2017)
nordBeck – Blenterop 1491 (2017)

Source: KQED Arts. Well, this is not good. Academia is one of the few steady gigs for accomplished creative musicians.

Roscoe Mitchell, the influential saxophonist known for groundbreaking work in jazz and orchestral music, is in danger of losing his job at Mills College due to the Oakland-based university’s financial problems.

A founding member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago who was once described as “one of the most important musicians in jazz” by the New York Times, Mitchell is one of 11 faculty members expected to lose his position, according to Chris Brown, the co-director at the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music.

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended.

George Christian – Exílios 1 (2017)
Mario Pavone – Vertical (2017)
Shelter (Vandermark / Wooley / Heather / Stadhouders) – Shelter (2017)
Thet Liturgiske Owäsende – Wisconsin Mining State (2017)
Hanging Hearts – Into a Myth (2017)
STAUB Quartet – House Full of Colors (2017)

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended.

Bubblemath – Edit Peptide (2017)
Kenoma – The Tides Will Prevail (2017)
Gavin Prior – Always Summer Somewhere (2016)
Chamber 4 – City of Light (2017)
Olivia Block – Karren (2013)