In the spotlight are two improvising trios recently heard in Seattle: Crump/Laubrock/Smythe and Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog. If you missed them, or don't live in our part of the world, here's your chance to check them out in the company of Andy Milne, Nate Wooley, Zeena Parkins, John Zorn's Bagatelles and several other stalwarts of the Downtown improv scene.
We also survey new recordings from Shelley Hirsch, Guy Klucevsek and Tyshawn Sorey (channeling his inner Morton Feldman via Awadagin Pratt and Roomful Of Teeth), plus premiere recordings of solo works by octogenarian John Harbison and nonagenarian Thea Musgrave. A 70th birthday salute to French acousmatician Denis Dufour and a 50th anniversary look at a performance in France by Frank Wright’s free quartet round out the program.Creative and improvised music with host Michael Schell, on the Northwest foremost and longest running radio show devoted to new and exploratory music.
