Month: May 2017

© Andrea Canter Last fall, a “new” trio launched in the Dunsmore Room of Crooners Lounge, bringing together three local veterans who somehow had never played together before. As Open Story, Dean Magraw, Bryan Nichols and Jay Epstein proved to be as effective as collaborators as they are talented as solo performers, bandleaders, and sidemen. […]

[Ed. note, much of the content of this article is adapted from the Walker and Steve Coleman websites.] “With strains of Parker and Coltrane, Bartók, and the musics of the Middle East and China … [Natal Eclipse’s performance] was something beautiful, indeed essential.” —The Nation Composer/bandleader/saxophonist Steve Coleman, “one of the most rigorously conceptual thinkers […]