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  • Renowned avant-jazz performers Oliver Lake , Roy Campbell and Charles Gayle will lead an eight-hour 9/11 performance tribute that includes dance, poetry readings and visual arts projections.

    Many Ways to Mark Anniversary Sophia Hollander 2011

  • Likewise in a few weeks, the annual Vision Festival -- a series of concerts featuring an international assortment of avant-jazz torchbearers -- will honor Rivers's fellow octogenarian Bill Dixon with a Lifetime Achievement presentation.

    Hank Shteamer: I Want My Mummy: Fighting Nostalgia on the New York Jazz Scene 2008

  • Thursday went to Templeball for the Triage show, Triage being comprised of members of Chicago's avant-jazz scene cross-members of Vandermark 5 and Dragons 76.

    shows this week: Bob's weekly harmonic divergence, Triage, Jerry Garcia paintings badger 2004

  • UNKL is an avant-jazz group from Berlin, and they were impressive: talented, creative, and improvisational while maintaining a smooth, relaxing feel to their playing.

    impromptu ChHill thereminfest: Barbez and Evil Weiner@Templeball badger 2004

  • In the nearly 60 years since Bing Crosby immortalized Berlin's ditty, holiday music has diversified so much that now you can ring in your festivities to reggae, rockabilly, avant-jazz, metal, Chipmunks or chip-tunes.

    News 2011

  • The jazz quartet's namesake drummer is taking the sly, laid-back, avant-jazz group out for another spin between his Village Vanguard residency and European tour dates with the Bad Plus.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • In the nearly 60 years since Bing Crosby immortalized Berlin's ditty, holiday music has diversified so much that now you can ring in your festivities to reggae, rockabilly, avant-jazz, metal, Chipmunks or chip-tunes.

    News 2011

  • In the early 1970s he hooked up with Edwards, whose slick sartorial style and deep soul roots contrasted so drastically with Rodgers's hippie motley and avant-jazz upbringing that it took the happenstance of a shared job to convince them their partnership was meant to be.

    NYT > Home Page By ROBERT CHRISTGAU 2011

  • In the nearly 60 years since Bing Crosby immortalized Berlin's ditty, holiday music has diversified so much that now you can ring in your festivities to reggae, rockabilly, avant-jazz, metal, Chipmunks or chip-tunes.

    News 2011

  • This, despite younger folks engaging with and making the music (via either school programs or through avant-jazz promoters like Bowerbird or Ars Nova), has often given the impression that interest in jazz in Philly is on the wane.

    :::Philebrity...media, culture, music and more::: tips 2010

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