Stephan Crump / Ingrid Laubrock - Channels"For me, free improvisation is nothing more than composing spontaneous composing from the moment," says bassist Stephan Crump. In this trio, three ideal typical partners come together who bring along thinking in compositional structures. Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock is active as a composer in her countless projects, always swinging playfully between composition and improvisation and moving light footedly between harmonic and rhythmically bound jazz and

Although it's tempting to cast Memorial as a record dealing exclusively with grief and loss

"I became really excited to make music for myself again-to just enjoy making music again

Carolyn's adventures in sound began with recording stories on a tape recorder at age 9 in 1976

from Mahler to Saint-Saëns

I struggled with the amount of vulnerability I was experiencing and was willing to share both musically and lyrically

[word]plays is an album of microtonal works for saxophone(s) inspired by the similarly named literary technique in which witty word-use becomes the subject of the work

Simply captivating

that of the age-old Indonesian gamelan orchestra that for over 100 years has had an influence on Western composers such as Debussy

in performance

" His roles as Fu Manchu

Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue in an acid

American Rock 'n' Roll and Rockabilly