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On The Cover:
ANTONIO HART
(by Emily Steinhilber)
…By 1991 Antonio Hart had released his own debut as leader, For the First Time. The decades ahead would bring further albums under his own name, a GRAMMY nomination and an extensive sideman discography. Yet even as professional success accumulated, Hart enrolled at Queens College, pursuing graduate studies under Jimmy Heath and Donald Byrd…
Interview:
BEN MONDER
(by Tom Greenland)
NYC-born guitarist Ben Monder—whose distinctive sound can be heard on twenty albums as a leader or co-leader, as well as on numerous other projects—is currently touring on the final phase of the year- long “Farewell Tour” of The Bad Plus. He speaks about his five-year stint with the quartet, his art and craft, composing and improvising, communication and immersion, and his overarching philosophy as a musician…
Artist Feature:
JESSICA JONES
(by Sophia Valera Heinecke)
Tenor saxophonist Jessica Jones has never taken for granted the special place music has held for her. Beginning in 1973, she attended the renowned Berkeley High Jazz Program in northern California, whose alumni also included such soon-to-be illustrious names as David Murray, Lenny Pickett, Steven Bernstein, her husband Tony Jones and Peter Apfelbaum (of whose Hieroglyphics Ensemble she became a decades-long member)…
Encore:
VISHNU WOOD
(by Daniel A. Brown)
Vishnu Wood is a born seeker who has lived a life of musical, intellectual and spiritual discovery. A creative and educational polymath, over the course of more than seven decades, Wood has toured the globe, performing on the bass, the Middle-Eastern oud and Indian bowed dilruba, while also pursuing his calling as a music educator-activist…
Lest We Forget:
PAULINE OLIVEROS
(by Kurt Gottschalk)
In the ten years since her death, composer and philosopher Pauline Oliveros has become a cultural touchstone. Just as John Cage came to represent silence, Oliveros’ name and koans (e.g. “Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears”) are nearly synonymous with the act of listening…
VOXNews
Label Spotlight:
Ears&eyes Records
(by Ken Waxman)
Of all the ways a record company expands a roster, ears&eyes is one of the few in which the director’s peripatetic life helps define its catalog. The imprint, which has released over 250 albums during its history, is located both in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as near Raleigh, NC, where bassist, producer and label director Matthew Golombisky currently lives…
NY@Night
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