nonet

• “The nonet was nothing if not bold: What other band in a post-9/11 world would use its liner notes to diagram a connection between major record labels and the military industrial complex?”

  The Wall Street Journal: Pop and Circumstance

• “As a member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and with his own bands especially Brass Fantasy, a brass-and-drums nonet, he embraced both avant-garde values and the techniques of jazz's earliest trumpeters, employing smears, blats, growls and half-valve winces in new ways.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Jazz Veteran Finds an Ecstatic Sound

• “The band has grown from a four-piece recording outfit to a nonet onstage, featuring a horn section trumpet, sax, trombone, bass, drums, percussion and keyboards.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Disco Balloons in Brooklyn

• “The ground-breaking 1949 "Birth of the Cool" nonet famously only played one gig.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Female Leads, Classic Beats, Gil at St. Pete's

• “He played and arranged for Bull Moose Jackson, the honking R&B tenor, his bop credentials include a nonet with Clifford Brown and he collaborated with John Coltrane on Mating Call in 1958.”

  Fictionaut: Madd About Tadd

• “Kagan will want to be a force on the court, meaning (I'm just guessing here, but it makes sense if you read that Times profile) that she might want to be more of a conciliator, more of a power-player among the court's nonet rather its thundering dissenting voice on these questions.”

  The Guardian: Elena Kagan

• “On the new "Assume Crash Position," only the second studio album of Konono No. 1's 30-year career, the Congolese nonet tries a few variations on the sound that became a global cult sensation.”

  The Washington Post: Konono No. 1 brings sounds of trance on junkyard instruments to Black Cat

• “New York It may seem surprising that Gerry Mulligan and Miles Davis put themselves on the map as composer-auteurs at the same time in the same band — namely, the 1949 “Birth of the Cool” nonet led by Davis — since, in one key aspect at least, their mature music could not be more different.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Reimagining a Jazz Giant

• “That suggests the varied interests that feed this nonet.”

  NPR: Jazz Omnivores: 'Dying Will Be Easy' (And Fun)

• “One of the charms of How to Be Well-Versed in Poetry is that it has something for readers at all levels — from beginners to scholars who want to refresh their memories of what a nonet or tanka is.”

  E.O. Parrott’s Witty Guide to the Different Kinds of Poetry « One-Minute Book Reviews

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