Anthony Braxton

What if there was an award given out for being the British post-jazz musician of the year, or the decade, or come to think of it the century, seeing as how whatever we think is the best thing of the past few years, since 2000, is of course the best thing of the century, although in the case of Amy Winehouse I would suggest you check back in a few years, much the same way you should check back about the position of Oasis in the greater scheme of things, and the idea is that this jazz musician is not necessarily a jazz musician who plays the sax, trumpet or drums, but a jazz musician who has taken the fluid, liberating, genre cracking spirit of, say, Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Derek Bailey, John Surman, Dave Holland, Evan Parker and Ovary Lodge, and transfers that spirit so that it fits into a 21st century world that is post the pop of Aphex Twin, Lemon Jelly, Prodigy, Tortoise, 808 State, Orbital, Leftfield and the Chemical Brothers, post the experimentation of Fennesz, Broadcast, Burial, Panda Bear, Notwist, Madvillain, post the jazz of Matthew Shipp, Jon Hassell, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, then this award, for being the British post-jazz musician of the decade, who operates with an awareness of electronica, hip hop, serialism, psych folk, minimalism and Sonic Youth, so a jazz musician who functions as an improvisor and an experimenter and a pleasure seeker and a theorist who also functions as a disc jockey and curator and post modern technician, then the award goes to... Read More

Rockpile, a collaborative journey of poetry and music, featuring David Meltzer, poet, musician and essayist, and Michael Rothenberg, poet, song writer and editor of Big Bridge Press, along with worldclass musicians Marty Ehrlich, Lindsey Horner, Michael Stephans and Bill Zavatsky, will perform on Sunday, November 9th at the Gershwin Hotel in New York City. New York is the fifth stop of the Rockpile journey. Read More

At the tender age of 28, Randall Kline, the co-founder and executive artistic director of SFJazz, presented his first jazz concerts. Read More

Last seen at Miller Theatre in the Julius Hemphill Composer Portrait he organized, Marty Ehrlich's virtuosic and unmatched technical command on saxophone and clarinet mark him as one of the best in modern jazz. Read More

Ars Nova Workshop is pleased to commence our season-long celebration of the work and life of multi-instrumentalist and composer Don Cherry (1936-1995). Read More

Washington, D.C.--The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz today announced its 22nd annual Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and all-star Gala Concert will take place at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 11. Read More