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Wadada Leo Smith

Big Ears 2025 Wadada Leo Smith's Radio Light and Orange Wave Electric -- Photo by Andy Feliu

Big Ears Festival 2025 Reminds Us to Open Ourselves to Wild and Wonderful Sounds

During the weekend of Big Ears, music is everywhere in Knoxville, Tennessee. Market Square, a centra...
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Vanessa Ague
International Contemporary Ensemble at TIME:SPANS 2023 -- Photo by Felipe Wurst and Adele Fournet

International Contemporary Ensemble Introduces Vision for a Musical Polyaspora at TIME:SPANS 2023

As the new artistic director of the International Contemporary Ensemble, George Lewis aspires for th...
Author
Jennifer Jolley
Forbes Graham--Photo by Lillian Graham

ListN Up: Forbes Graham (April 2, 2021)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
2020 albums

Editor’s Picks: 2020 Contemporary Classical Albums

If this year has delivered any sort of message about our field, it’s that artists will inevita...
Author
Amanda Cook
Deerhoof and Wadada Leo Smith To Be Surrounded By Beautiful, Curious, Breathing, Laughing Flesh Is Enough

Unbound by Genre, Deerhoof and Wadada Leo Smith Work Wonders

Without being hyperbolic, Deerhoof is one of the hardest working bands in the business. In the past...
Author
Clover Nahabedian
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This week: concerts in New York (September 30, 2019 – October 6, 2019)

Covering Home | NationalSawdust+ Radio host and composer Jad Abumrad (Radiolab, More Perfect) takes...
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Sam Reising
Gelsey Bell

This week: concerts in New York (April 22, 2019 – April 28, 2019)

Amber Evans + Lena Vidulich Amber Evans and Lena Vidulich perform a varied program showcasing the po...
Author
Sam Reising
Matt Marks

This week: concerts in New York (October 29, 2018 – November 4, 2018)

Words on the Street In this hybrid music-theatre performance, a baby is abducted, and the Seven Dead...
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Sam Reising
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Personal Collaborations Abound on Walters and Deyoe New Releases

Music doesn’t have to tell a story. However, when people collaborate to create music, the music ofte...
Author
Jacob Kopcienski
Kelly Moran

This week: concerts in New York (October 16, 2017 – October 22, 2017)

Hallucinations | Kelly Moran Experimental pianist Kelly Moran presents Hallucinations, influenced by...
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Sam Reising
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Emerging from Trouble at Ojai Music Festival

The 71st Ojai Music Festival took place in Ojai, CA from June 8-11, 2017 with pianist and composer V...
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Aaron Wolff
Vijay Iyer

5 Questions to Vijay Iyer (2017 Ojai Festival Music Director)

Composer, pianist, and educator Vijay Iyer is Music Director of the 71st Ojai Music Festival, June 8...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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This week: concerts in New York (April 27 – May 3, 2015)

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Sam Reising
Wadada Leo Smith

Wadada Leo Smith Headlines Edgefest 16 in Ann Arbor

  Avant-garde composer/trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith delivered a stirring midwest premiere of his...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn

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