Reviews, concert reports and
photographs of an extensive range of
improvised and jazz-related music

Celebrating and archiving a decade when the worlds of new notated music and free improvisation drew closer together is this two-CD set of 10 performances that strikingly illustrate the intermingling. Recorded in Brooklyn art spaces before the borough became the hip (in real estate terms) locus it is today; all tracks feature pianist Bernadette Speach and guitarist Jeffrey Schanzer. Part of the contemporary, so-called classical avant-garde, their collaborations here mostly encompassed players with whom they… Read More