Mainly focusing the avant-garde and adventurous styles: Modern classical, free jazz, minimalist and electronic experimental styles.
Back after a 6+month hiatus!!! Some of my favorite Black artists and composers in honor of the Black Lives Matter movement. No feature this week, and please excuse the poor sound quality on the first cut.
Feature: Tim Berne's Snakeoil performing " Third Option" (2019).
Remembering the last survivor of the classic John Coltrane Quartet: McCoy Tyner (11 December 1938 - 6 March 2020), a true original.
Feature: Juliet Fraser with the Plus-Minus Ensemble (some members shown here) performing Cassandra Miller's "Bel Canto" (2010, recorded 2019).
Feature: Remembering Jon Christensen (1943 - 2020) in two pieces.
WOW!! FOUR HOURS!!! Lots of fun and lengthy stuff with feature: Morton Feldman's "For John Cage" performed by Aisha Orazbayeva (violin) & Mark Knoop (piano).
Interview with Sid Smith, author of "In the Court of King Crimson", plus an improv from the Jamie Muir era.
Feature: "Burnt With a Brilliant Light", a solo percussion performance by Walt Shaw from 11 January 2020.
Feature: Giacomo Piermatti (shown) & Daniele Roccato in a bass duet performing "Da Una Certa Nebbia" (2017).
Feature: "Suid Afrika 76" by Max Roach (r) & Archie Shepp.
