Category: Interviews
Bill Laswell. Photo by Ziga Koritnik
By
Paul Acquaro
and
David Cristol
Both David and I have seen Bill Laswell perform a few times. For me, once at
the old Stone in NYC and once at the
A’LARME Festival in Berlin, and for David, starting in 2003, seeing M…
James Brandon Lewis. Photo (c) Cristina Marx / PhotoMusixInterview by Paul Acquaro (with help from Nick Metzger)
Last month, Nick Metzger reviewed several of saxophonist James Brandon Lewis’
latest releases. In fact, one of them, Eye of I, had not yet been
released. Nick wrote:
On the forthcoming 2023 release Eye of I, Lewis’ first for th…
Rodrigo Amado. Photo (c) Cristina Marx/Photomusix.It’s always a pleasure to hear a new recording from Lisbon based saxophonist and photographer Rodrigo Amado. His groups, such as the Motion Trio, The Attic, This Is Our Language quartet, as well as his work with guitarist Luis Lopes’ Humanization 4tet, among many other collaborations, always feature…
Myra Melford. Photo: Brian McMillen and Stef Gijssels with Myra Melford
Paul (FJB): Thanks for taking the time to speak with us, it’s nice to have a
chance to talk with you and catch up with the work that you’re doing.
So, to start, you just played at the Big Ears Festival in Tennessee,
how was it?
…
An Interview with Markus Müller about the bookFMP: The Living Music, reviewed here.
Guilherme Rodrigues, photo from his website.
Cellist Guilherme Rodrigues, from Lisbon, has been living in Berlin for six years, developing musical partnerships with musicians across intersecting scenes. His simultaneous roles find him a part of Lisbon’s Creative Sources Recordings record label, musical director of Berlin’s Hosek Contemporary Art Ga…
Ignaz Schick. (c)Cristina Marx/Photomusix
FJB: What is echtzeitmusik to you? Is what might be considered
echtzeitmusik connected through any approach, process, or sound result?
Ignaz Schick:
For me „Echtzeitmusik“ mostly is a community of similar minded musicians
who started arriving in Berlin i…
We are excited to have had a chance to touch base with Ken Vandermark and Brock Stuessi of the Catalytic Sound co-operative about the Catalytic Sound Festival. The second edition of the festivalwill be taking place in October, in Vienna, Haarlem, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Chicago, NYC, Trondheim, and Washington D.C. – and mostly viewable online. Paul A…
On September 30th, if you happen to be in the Albany, NY area around 10 a.m., tune in to 90.7 WGXC-FM. The Free Jazz Blog’s Paul Acquaro and Stef Gijssels join Tyran Grillo, author of the ECM dedicated blog and book Between Sound and Space: ECM Records and Beyond on radio host Cheryl K.’s show Situation Fluxus. Cheryl deftly leads the three in a co…
We took the occasion of Sammy Stein’s review of Ivo Perelman and Nate Wooley’s Polarity on the new Burning Ambulances record label to reach out to label founder Phil Freeman with some questions. Paul Acquaro: Burning Ambulance, the web site, contains a wealth of your writing
and podcasts about music. This seems like a good amount of wor…
https://stream.catalyticsound.com/During our conversation this summer, player, composer, organizer, and Catalytic Sound co-founder, Ken Vandermark, who at the time was in the thick of planning the Catalytic Sound Festival, dropped some hints of a in-development streaming service. At the time it was an intriguing aside, but now the service is live. …
Matthew Shipp @ Roulette, June 14, 2019. Photo by Peter Gannushkin
by Paul Acquaro
Today we celebrate the 60th birthday of pianist Matthew Shipp. An influential presence on the Downtown NYC music scene since the 1980s, Shipp is a creative and prolific musician who leads and appears on many projects. In the following Q&A, Shipp talk…
