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  • Best of Best of 2009

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    I’ve already said my piece on the best of 2009, but here is an opportunity to present the opinions of others. Over the last month or so, I’ve collected some of the more interesting and relevant “best of” lists, that focus on music likely to be within the AMN scope. So, welcome to the best…

  • Taylor Ho Bynum in January

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    From SpiderMonkey Stories, THB provides his schedule of upcoming shows: Thursday, January 7, noon – 3pm: Out to Lunch, WKCR 89.9FM I’ll be sitting in the studio at NYC’s most venerable of jazz stations, mostly discussing matters of brass importance in preparation for the upcoming Festival of New Trumpet Music. Friday, January 8, 7:30pm: Jason…

  • Fresh Sound Music Upcoming Concerts

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    Fresh Sound Music puts on some interesting shows in San Diego: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 – 8 pm Margaret Noble, sound design (San Diego) Susan Narucki, voice and electronics (San Diego) FRESH SOUND EXTRA – Ear, Nose and Throat Monday, January 25th, 2010 – 8 pm PERCUSSION SERIES – Steve Schick Tuesday, February 9, 2010…

  • Coming to the ISSUE Project Room

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    From New York’s ISSUE Project Room: 01/06 @ 9pm – Jason Lescalleet + Pauline Monin Please note: Doors @ 8:30 show starts at 9 Jason Lescalleet (Berwick, Maine) and Pauline Monin (Lyon, France) are exploring the relationships between the way that sound impacts space and how the body can interpret this for visual stimuli.  Jason will be premiering two…

  • All About Jazz Reviews

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    Bill Dixon via last.fm From All About Jazz: Medeski, Martin & Wood Medeski, Martin & Wood: Radiolarians – The Evolutionary Set (Indirecto Records) Anthony Braxton Creative Orchestra (Koln) 1978 (Hatology) Bill Dixon Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12 Records) Joe McPhee / Peter Brotzmann / Kent Kessler / Michael Zerang The Damage Is Done (Not…

  • Coming up from RUCMA

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    From NY’s Rise Up Creative Music & Arts: MONDAY December 28 PLENTY OF HORN 7:30 PM Ray Anderson Trio Ray Anderson – Trombone Mark Helias – Bass / Gerald Cleaver – Drums 9:00 PM Michael Attias Quartet Michael Attias – Sax / Ralph Alessi – Tmp Tom Rainey – Drms / Sean Conly – Bass…

  • February at the Stone

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    February highlights fro, New York’s The Stone: February 2010 at the Stone curated by Toby Driver MONDAY FEBRUARY 2—STONE SEMINAR 5 BUTCH MORRIS: The Principles of Conduction® 7PM to 10PM—TWENTY DOLLARS: Open to all For the 25th Anniversary of Conduction, Butch Morris presents a special lecture/ demonstration, a concert featuring a string octet and a…

  • Umbrella Music Through January 13

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    Image via Wikipedia From Chicago’s Umbrella Music: Sunday, 27 December 2009 The Hungry Brain 10:00PM | Mike Reed’s People Places and Things Greg Ward – alto sax Tim Haldeman – tenor sax Jason Roebke – bass Mike Reed – drums two sets Wednesday, 30 December 2009 The Hideout 10:00PM | Josh Berman’s Old Idea Josh…

  • AMN Best of 2009

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    I don’t take “best of” lists too seriously, nor should you. However, the virtually infinite number of such lists floating around this month can serve to sum up the year’s major releases, and to give you an idea of releases you might have missed. The AMN “best of” is set out in two lists below.…

  • AMN Picks of the Week

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    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. Trayer – One Over Zero (2009) Jason Stein’s Locksmith Isidore – Three…

  • Claudia Quintet to play First Night

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    From the Boston Globe, the Claudia Quintet will play Boston’s First Night fest this week. NEW YORK – When percussionist and composer John Hollenbeck, an eclectically minded veteran of the New York scene with a portfolio ranging from big band and klezmer to avant-garde “new music,’’ set out to form his own group, he didn’t…

  • This Week at the Velvet Lounge.

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    Image via Wikipedia From the Velvet Lounge: Saturday, 12/26 — Umoja (Unity) with the Kahil El’ Zabar Quartet featuring Kevin Nabors, Justin Dillard, and Junius Paul; Thursday, 12/31 — Kuumba (Creativity)/New Years Eve party with Nicole Mitchell & the Black Earth with special guest cameo appearance by Fred Anderson ($25 cover includes party favors, snacks…

  • Jazz Listings From the New York Times

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    Image via Wikipedia From NYTimes.com: THE BAD PLUS (Tuesday through Thursday) The pianist Ethan Iverson, the bassist Reid Anderson and the drummer David King constitute the Bad Plus, a delivery system for smartly sweeping original songs, as well as wryly affectionate renditions of pop tunes. (Through Jan. 3.) At 9 and 11 p.m., Village Vanguard,…

  • 9th Annual New Music Festival at Cal State Fullerton

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    Augusta Read Thomas via last.fm From Los Angeles New Music: The 9th Annual New Music Festival at Cal State Fullerton March 7th-13th, 2010 features works by composer/pianist in residence Frederic Rzewski and American Classics: Cage, Feldman, Carter plus works from American Women Composers: Augusta Read Thomas, Amy Williams, Pamela Madsen and Carolyn Yarnell performed by…

  • Newsbits

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    Image via Wikipedia All About Jazz has a long feature on Vijay Iyer. Gino Robair blogs about download-only music from the perspective of a fan and a musician. Paul Sears has posted a few videos of Thee Maximalists. Brooklyn’s Spike Hill will be the locale of a January 4th show featuring the Landon Knoblock Group…

  • Free Jazz Blog Reviews

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    Image via Wikipedia From Free Jazz: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2009 Chad Taylor – Circle Down (482 Music, 2009) *** Vijay Iyer Trio – Historicity (ACT, 2009) ***½ Plaistow – Jack Bambi (Self Published, 2009) **** Tony Malaby – Voladores (Clean Feed, 2009) ***** MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2009 Katherine Young – Further Secret Origins (Porter Records,…

  • Musique Machine Reviews

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    From Musique Machine: Church – Faceless Faceless is a very disturbing, original, often organic & brooding mixture of atmospheric guitar textures, cleverly placed field recordings & all manner of creative yet often uneasy sound making. Bodies Floating In the Bay – The Glimmer Of Darkness Bodies Floating In the Bay may sound like the name…

  • Jazz Times Reviews

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    From Jazz Times: JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010  •  BY DAVID WHITEIS Fred Anderson 21st Century Chase Delmark Records The prototype here is “The Chase,” the 1947 Dexter Gordon/Wardell Gray workout that virtually defined “tenor battle” for succeeding generations. But this set, recorded at Chicago’s Velvet Lounge during Fred Anderson’s 80th birthday celebration, recasts that… 12/21/09 Transatlantic Visions…

  • A Celebration of the Life of Joe Maneri

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    From the Boston Microtonal Society: A Celebration of the Life of Joe Maneri Irondale Center February 9, 2010, 8pm What: A concert to remember and celebrate the life of Joe Maneri When: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 8pm Where: Irondale Center, 85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, C train to Lafayette, 1/2/3/4/5/Q/B trains to Atlantic Ave, R/M/N/D/trains…

  • Telluric Currents, Series 3 to Take Place at Brooklyn’s I-Beam

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    Coming to the IBeam: Continuing the new concert series curated by Brooklyn-based composer/clarinetist Jeremiah Cymerman, the thirdd installment of the Telluric Currents series will take place January 15th & 16th at Brooklyn’s I-Beam. Celebrating the diversity and creativity of New York’s underground musicians, each night of the series will present different groups of musicians who…

  • Another ESP-Disk’ Show in New York

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    Image via Wikipedia From ESP-Disk’: Tuesday, January 19th ESP-Disk’ LIVE @ The Bowery Poetry Club 10pm Flaherty-Corsano-Carter Paul Flaherty – alto and tenor sax Chris Corsano – drums Daniel Carter – woodwinds and trumpet 11pm Joe Morris Trio (ESP 4056) Joe Morris – guitar Steve Lantner – piano Luther Gray – drums The Bowery Poetry…

  • Iancu Dumitrescu Radio Shows

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    Image by andyw23 via Flickr ResonanceFM will feature two 3-hour online radio shows featuring the music of Iancu Dumitrescu, one of the most important living composers. Born and bred under the yoke of Ceaucescu’s “communist” regime in Rumania, Dumitrescu proposes an intolerable intensity that blossoms and decays like natural sound in cosmic space. For his…