No other musician aside from Miles Davis and Duke Ellington had such a long-term creative impact on me. Since I was a child, I’ve listened to all their work. Then […]
Read moreWhat will be, will be- Sly Stone is gone.
Category: Notes from the field
Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 4
After arriving in Skopje, Macedonia on April 12th to begin work with Svetlost (Kiko Novkovski [drums], Deni Omeragić [electric bass], and Nino Spirovski [Bb clarinet, tenor & […]
Read moreDamon Locks: “We Are Our People/Listen To This” exhibition at Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago
Thankful to be back in Chicago after the project with Svetlost and Paal Nilssen-Love (more on the second half of that tour shortly) and in time to see Damon Locks’ […]
Read moreSvetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 3
After a strong second concert in Sofia, Bulgaria at Club Singles on Thursday night, which pulled the new material into sharper focus, the group set up and recorded […]
Read moreSvetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 2
Following a second rehearsal with Deni Omeragić, Nino Spirovski, and Kiko Novkovski on Monday afternoon, Paal Nilssen-Love joined the project on Tuesday after flying from Chicago […]
Read moreAlbum coverage: “Broadcast Transformer” and “This Is Not A Holiday”
The process of creating new work and documenting it has been essential to me for decades, driven by periods early on when both were difficult and the knowledge that Herbie […]
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