ABOUT
Music curation and writing that stretches across new avenues of experimental music, cultural criticism, research, and more.
The New Experience
Sound/Sight/Movement Mini Series
Loud Week Festival
Fire Music at the Legion
New Revolution Arts Concert Series
New York Tenor Saxophone Festival
In addition to being a regular contributor for sites like Jazz Right Now and Jazz Tokyo, I curated the above music festivals, and contributed to critics polls for NPR Music and El Intruso. My current writing and research focuses on the history of the American musical avant-garde, with particular focus on the roots of free jazz, contemporary experimental music in New York, and free jazz oral histories and biographies. You can read more on that here.
A selection of recent excerpts from Jazz Right Now — a site on New York’s experimental jazz scene that I founded in 2013 — follows.
Review: Andrew Smiley — Looming as Light Torn by Ben Remsen
Review: Soojin Suh’s Colorist Trio — Colorist by Sunjae Lee
New Label Review: Mung Music (Korea) by Jeanne Landers
Review: Patricia Brennan — Maquishti by Gabriel Jermaine Vanlandingham-Dunn
Contact
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