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  • Meehan/Perkins Duo at Carnegie Hall

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    An upcoming performance from the Meehan/Perkins Duo: The Meehan/ Perkins Duo (Todd Meehan and Douglas Perkins), comprised of two of the country’s leading contemporary percussionists, will perform a concert on Friday, January 16 at 8 PM at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. This is the first full-length recital for these two since they performed in NYC…

  • 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. Alex Maguire Sextet – Brewed in Belgium (2008, jazz) Paul Lansky –…

  • Ten Questions with Jessica Pavone

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    From Glowing Realm: Jessica Pavone is a Brooklyn based composer/string instrumentalist that has been constantly busy since 2000 writing and performing in a wide variety of projects. Whether in her duo with Mary Halvorson, in The Thirteenth Assembly, in any number of Anthony Braxton’s tone combinations, or leading her soul group The Pavones, Jessica always…

  • Guitarist Mary Halvorson Makes Music ‘Sort of Based in Jazz’

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    Mary Halvorson gets more coverage of her show tonight in Brooklyn. Ms. Halvorson, 28, has built a name as a guitarist in new-music circles, largely through an association with the celebrated multireedist and composer Anthony Braxton. And she has proved herself a judicious composer, in the duo with Ms. Pavone and in People, a willfully…

  • Ten Questions with Taylor Ho Bynum

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    Glowing Realm interviews THB. Taylor Ho Bynum is a new music composer/trumpeter from New York. Working frequently with some of NY’s finest (Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone) and leading groups such as SpiderMonkey Strings and The Thirteenth Assembly, Ho Bynum always brings a unique approach to composition, and improvisation. Also a frequent collaborator of…

  • AMN Picks of the Week

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    Image via Wikipedia 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. Anthony Braxton – Quartet (Moscow) 2008 (2008, composed /…