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One of the top saxophonists to come out of Chicago's AACM movement of the mid-'60s, Roscoe Mitchell is a particularly strong and consistently adventurous improviser long associated with the Art Ensemble of Chicago. After getting out of the military, Mitchell led a hard bop sextet in Chicago (1961) which gradually became much freer. He was a member of Muhal Richard Abrams's Experimental Band and a founding member of the AACM in 1965. Mitchell's monumental Sound album (1966) introduced a new way of freely improvising, utilizing silence as well as high energy and "little instruments" as well as conventional horns
Nick Fraser: Still Screaming Into The Snare Drum
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, The Tonearm's needle lands on Toronto drummer and composer Nick Fraser.Nick Fraser is one of the most distinctive voices in Canadian improvised music. He has played with Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, and William Parker, and has led projects that range from raw free jazz to something much harder to name.His latest ...
Liudas Mockūnas / Samuel Blaser / Marc Ducret: Twisted Summer
by Mark Corroto
All of modern jazz and improvised music owes a debt to Jimmy Giuffre (1921--2008). A quiet revolutionary, Giuffre helped reshape the language of jazz in ways that many musicians now take for granted. His solo recordings anticipated those of Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell, while his early experiments without a rhythm section, common practice today, were ...
David Murray, Amina Claudine Myers and Matthew Shipp At The Long Play Festival
by Paul Reynolds
David Murray, Amina Claudine Myers, and Matthew Shipp Theater for a New Audience Long Play Festival New York NY May 2, 2026 As the first full day of the Long Play Festival, Saturday offered the event's usual diversity of offerings, with 25-plus performances ranging from New-Music ensemble Bang on a ...
Tomeka Reid: The Low Seat, The Long Haul, And 'Dance! Skip! Hop!'
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, The Tonearm's needle drops on cellist and composer Tomeka Reid. Tomeka Reid has spent the last decade building one of the most distinctive voices in creative music. The New York Times called her a “New Jazz Power Source." She's a MacArthur Fellow, a founder of the Chicago Jazz String Summit, and a key ...
Bobby Naughton Trio: Live at Charlie's Tap
by Mark Corroto
Today, a number of drummers, including Ches Smith and Kenny Wollesen, also double on vibraphone, underscoring the instrument's fundamentally percussive nature. In the hands of Bobby Naughton, however, the vibraphone functioned as something more expansive: a reimagined piano, capable of both harmonic depth and rhythmic propulsion. Naughton began studying piano at the age of ...
Unity Jazz Festival 2026 at Jazz At Lincoln Center
by Paul Reynolds
Unity Jazz FestivalOpening NightJazz at Lincoln CentreNew York, NY January 8, 2026 It does not rain--or snow--jazz in New York in the first week of January, it pours--or blizzards--the music. Winter JazzFest, the longtime colossus that takes over clubs in downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn, has been joined in the past three years ...
Marcin Bożek & Danny Kamins: Ignorantka
by Mark Corroto
Even if you do not speak Polish--and I count myself among those who do not--you can still grasp the meaning behind Ignorantka, the 2025 collaboration between bassist Marcin Boźek and saxophonist Danny Kamins. The word translates roughly to “ignorant," but here it carries a more nuanced meaning: not simply uneducated, but unaware--blind to what lies beyond ...
Remembering Jack DeJohnette: Unlimited Imagination
by Ian Patterson
It is with sadness that All About jazz must report the passing of NEA Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette--one of the most respected and influential of modern jazz drummers. He died of congestive heart failure on October 26, 2025. He was 83. DeJohnette belongs in the pantheon of great jazz drummers. If there were a ...
Jon Irabagon / PlainsPeak: Someone to Someone
by Jack Kenny
Jon Irabagon is a musician whose complexity is both exhilarating and daunting. His restless energy, deep self-reflection, remarkable achievements and sharp intellect combine to create a figure who constantly provokes questions--about music, originality and the very nature of artistic expression. In 2011, Irabagon undertook a bold experiment: With Mostly Other People Do The Killing, ...
