Trio Bravo+ blends classical music, klezmer, and folk rhythms. Its members are from Ukraine, Italy, + Poland. [ rondo_ukraine.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) ]
"The Ganelin Trio Priority played a staggering set on the penultimate evening of the June, 2007 Vision Festival, a continuous and constantly morphing shock-and-awe campaign in which all national and international demarcations were obliterated."
- Marc Medwin, allaboutjazz.com, August, 2007, USA
" ... improvisational genius of the highest order"
- Tom Sekowski, The Live Music Report, January 2008, USA
In the last few years, jazz has made one of its most radical transformations since the 1960s... Here are 12 of the finest young jazz musicians making jazz history: Rudresh Mahanthappa, Vijay Iyer + Fieldwork Trio, Cuong Vu, Ole Mathisen, Andy Milne, Sylvie Courvoisier, Ron Horton, Herb Robertson + NY Downtown Allstars, David S. Ware, Moutin Reunion Quartet, Susie Ibarra, Craig Taborn, Russ Lossing, Steve Lehman Quartet...
New York-based free jazz guitarist Bern Nix is one of the few people who are well-versed in Ornette Coleman's "harmolodics" style. He played with Coleman from 1975-1987, and now leads the Bern Nix Trio in New York City. In his compositions and his intriguing covers of standards, he is always looking in the corners of the music for something new.
Think long, sinuous, minor-key, violin-carried melodies wending their way over a toe-tapping, thigh slapping, hip-shaking beat - a beat that sometimes accelerates and seems to be running away in ecstatic joyousness.