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Close friends since the mid 1960's, Burton Greene (b.1937) and Perry Robinson (b.1938) are two of the most infamous and legendary pioneers of free jazz and the downtown scene. Performing together...

"Trevor Dunn, a bassist with one foot planted in experimental rock, takes a repertory approach with ProofReaders, his quartet with the trumpeter Nate Wooley, the saxophonist Darius Jones and the...

For this special appearance, MacArthur Fellow Ken Vandermark will premiere new arrangements of Don Cherry's "Brown Rice", which, in 1975, wedded Indian, African and Arabic music to the electrified...

Ars Nova Workshop, in partnership with the New York-based Festival of New Trumpet (FONT), is pleased to present the first annual FONT Philadelphia mini-festival showcasing three adventurous...

It's been said that instrumental music is at its root an extension of the sounds we produce with our voices. In the title track of Daniel Levin's "Fuhuffah" (Clean Feed Records) the music began in...

Please join Ars Nova Workshop for part one of our two-night Composer Portrait: Tim Berne series, featuring two compositions for saxophone quartet - "Repulsion" and "Quicksand" (also with...

“This is a true ensemble from top to bottom, a sonic equivalent to a hand-woven tapestry...Impressive.” -DownBeat

Ellery Eskelin (born 1959) was raised in Baltimore and began playing the tenor saxophone at age ten, inspired by his mother "Bobbie Lee" who played Hammond B3 organ professionally in the early...

The most prominent baritone saxophonist of his generation, Hamiet Bluiett (b. 1940) combines a blunt, modestly inflected attack with a fleet, aggressive technique, and a uniform hugeness of sound...

This new co-operative trio brings together three artists who have developed strikingly individual voices on their respective instruments, both in their own music as leaders and as key...

Rashied Ali was a progenitor and leading exponent of multidirectional rhythms/polytonal percussion. A student of Philly Joe Jones and an admirer of Art Blakey, Ali developed the style known as "...

Since the demise of the legendary and critically-acclaimed Trio Clusone - featuring Han Bennink, Michael Moore and Ernst Reijseger - in 1998, the jazz community has been anxiously awaiting a...

Since March 2008, the SciFiPhilly series - held nearly every Sunday at Gojjo in West Philadelphia - has presented many exceptional artists in Philadelphia's emerging (and otherwise) improvised...

Composer, saxophonist, poet and Guggenheim Fellow, Oliver Lake, is one of jazz's most prolific and eclectic artists of the last 40 years. Oliver Lake is known for everything from his solo...

A veteran of the ensembles of esteemed saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton, guitarist and composer Mary Holvorson returns to Philadelphia with her new quintet. In addition to her acclaimed...

Merzbow stands as the most important artist in noise music today. The moniker of Japanese Masami Akita appears on hundreds of albums. The name comes from...

"A pioneering force behind the evolution of minimalism, violinist and composer Tony Conrad introduced the idea of ""Eternal Music,"" a droning, mesmerizing performance idiom which employs long...

"Curtis Hasselbring's New Mellow Edwards is a group that was originally formed in 1988. Known back then as the Mellow Edwards, the trio of trombone, electric guitar and drums explored a unique...