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Featured Artist – Carl Testa

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Carl Testa bass, composition

Carl Testa: I am a composer and instrumentalist based in New Haven, CT and New York City. I am originally from Chicago, Illinois. While in Chicago, I studied music with Donn DeSanto, at the U of C Lab School, as well as at the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) School of Music. There I studied and performed with Mwata Bowden, Ann Ward, Avreeyal Ra, Steve Berry, Ernest Dawkins, Aaron Getsug, Isaiah Spencer, Stephen Ptacek, Will Faber, Noah Meites, Kevin Nabors, Justin Dillard, and many others.…

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Featured Artist – Taylor Ho Bynum

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Taylor Ho Bynum cornet, composition

Taylor Ho Bynum is a composer, cornet player, bandleader and interdisciplinary collaborator. Critics have called him “a singular and thrilling artist” (All About Jazz), “a major force on the outward-bound side of the jazz continuum” (The Boston Globe) and “a provocateur in the guise of a consensus builder” (The New York Times). Bynum currently leads his Sextet and 7-tette, and works with many collective ensembles including a duo with drummer Tomas Fujiwara, the improv trio Book of Three, the UK/US collaborative Convergence Quartet, the dance/music interdisciplinary ensemble Quartet Collective, and the trans-idiomatic little big band Positive Catastrophe.…

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Featured Artist – Wolter Wierbos

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Wolter Wierbos trombone

Wolter Wierbos is considered one of the world’s leading trombone players. He has played throughout Europe, Canada, USA and Asia. Wierbos has many awards to his name, including the Podiumprijs for Jazz and Improvised music and the most important Dutch jazz award, the VPRO Boy Edgar Prize.
Like many Dutch brass players Wierbos started out in a ‘fanfare’ (brass band), switching from trumpet to trombone when he was 17. “It looked good, and the trombones walk in front….”…

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Featured Artist – Brandon Seabrook

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Brandon Seabrook banjo

Brandon Seabrook is the guitar and banjo-shredding frontman of the raucous avant-thrash trio, Seabrook Power Plant. Mixing tweaked out hardcore with art rock improvisations where tech-metallic squelching converges with punk-jazz, his band’s two self-titled albums, Seabrook Power Plant I (2009) and Seabrook Power Plant II (2011), were released on Brooklyn’s Loyal Label. The Village Voice named him “NYC’s Best Guitarist of 2012” and he has received national and international recognition in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Fret Board Journal and UK music journal The Wire.…

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Featured Artist – Mary Oliver

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Mary Oliver violin, viola

Mary Oliver, violin, viola, hardanger fiddle, explores virtuosity in both scored and improvised music. Oliver (b. La Jolla, California) studied at San Francisco State University (Bachelor of Music), Mills College (Master of Fine Arts), and the University of California, San Diego, where she received a Ph.D for research in the theory and practice of improvised music.
As a soloist, Oliver has premiered works by, among others, Richard Barrett, John Cage, Chaya Czernowin, Brian Ferneyhough, Joëlle Léandre Liza Lim, George E.…

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Featured Artist – Wilbert de Joode

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Wilbert de Joode bass

Wilbert de Joode has been playing bass since 1982 and is self-taught. He originally worked with groups that improvised with jazz as starting point. His idiosyncratic approach soon attracted attention and resulted in numerous invitations in the fields of music, dance and visual arts.
De Joode can now be regarded as one of the leading specialists in the fields of collective improvisation and Instant Composing. Creating new music on the spot calls for a free spirit who is always searching and taking risks – someone who can start from ‘nothing’ and doesn’t allow the ego to prevail.…