Member Since: 1/31/2006
Band Website: arsnovaworkshop.com
Influences: ANW has hosted the US debuts of ECM Records’ Tomasz Stanko Quartet, Dave Burrell‘s Full-Blown Trio with William Parker and Andrew Cyrille (their CD was subsequently voted Village Voice’s ..2 Jazz Album of 2004), the Anthony Braxton Sextet, and ‘Interstellar Space is the Place’: Rashied Ali + Marshall Allen Duo, among many others. In addition, ANW has presented the Philadelphia premiers of unique ensembles such as Dave Douglas’ Witness, Billy Martin and G. Calvin Weston Duo (live performance now on CD, Amulet Records), and Drew Gress’s Spin and Drift, as well as groups featuring some of the leading names in European improvised music such as Peter Brötzmann, Mats Gustafsson, Paal Nilssen-Love, and Miroslav Vitous.
ANW continues to be a driving force in bridging the gap between the Free Jazz (and post-Bop) movement of the 1960s - presenting artists and ensembles such as Henry Grimes, Sunny Murray, Sun Ra Arkestra, Prince Lasha, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman and John Tchicai, many of whom have not performed in Philadelphia in decades - and some of the most innovative musicians and ensembles emerging today such as Mat Maneri, Tim Berne’s Hard Cell and Big Satan, John Hollenbeck’s Claudia Quintet, Tony Malaby, MacArthur fellow Ken Vandermak, and Rob Mazurek.
Sounds Like: "It is essential to distinguish between music the sole purpose of which is to produce a uniform and deliberate effect, thus simulating a collective action of an intended kind, and music whose meaning is, in itself, expressing feelings, ideas, sensations, or experiences, and which, far from welding people into a homogenous mass with identical reactions, allows free play to individual subjective associations." -Ernst Fischer
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