John Surman Interview | A Life in Improvisation and Sound
John Surman has spent more than six decades following sounds wherever they led. He began as a choirboy in Plymouth, picked up the clarinet and baritone saxophone as...
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“Anything Can Be Funny, but That Is Not Always the Case” | Eugene Chadbourne Interview
The guitarist, banjo player, composer and writer talks about his early years in Canada and New York, Shockabilly, country music, the electric rake and why he has always...
John Phillips | The Outsider Folk Mystery of ‘Songs of Gentleness 1969–1976’
Gordon Phillips discusses the life, music and rediscovery of his brother John, a mysterious outsider folk songwriter from Rhodesia whose surviving recordings have finally been brought together in...
Evan Parker Interview | Six Decades of Listening, Risk and Free Improvisation
Evan Parker discusses Cecil Taylor, John Stevens, Derek Bailey, Incus, solo saxophone, electronics and ‘The Heraclitean Two-Step, etc.’ For more than six decades, Evan Parker has been a...
William Hooker Discusses New Album ‘Convergence: Live In China’
"Oh my god, music and sound is endless. It's always all the things you just said. It never ends... it is just like LIFE." That is William Hooker...
Lester Winchester McKendree Interview | ‘We’re Well Cooked and Like Our Particular Musical Stew the Way It Is’
Jimmy Lester, Mark W. Winchester and Kevin McKendree have spent decades playing alongside other musicians, but Lester Winchester McKendree gives the three Nashville veterans a sound of their...
Fantastic Negrito on ‘Alive!’: “Church Without the Religion”
'Alive!' is the new live album by Fantastic Negrito, put together from performances recorded in Trieste, Brooklyn, Rubigen, Sogliano and Leeds. The places and audiences change, but the...
Alan Gerber Interview: From Elektra and Rhinoceros to ‘The Well’
Alan Gerber was just 20 when Paul Rothchild at Elektra Records gave him a choice: cut a solo album or join a new band the label was putting...
Billy Cobham: Past and Present on ‘Times of My Life’
The drummer on Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, ‘Spectrum’ and ‘Times of My Life’. Billy Cobham has been part of the story of jazz fusion for more than fifty...
ALICE NOT JOHN Episode 28: A Fictional Radio Transmission Guest: CJ Bolland
ALICE NOT JOHNEpisode 28: A Fictional Radio TransmissionGuest: CJ BollandHost: Joeri Bruyninckx A conversation I overheard in a record store: Customer: “Do you have Coltrane?”Record shop owner: “In...