On this show we further explore Ivo Perelman's expansive set of recordings Reed Rapture In Brooklyn, this time looking at his partnership with Roscoe Mitchell. In addition as well as some music from ...

Roscoe Mitchell has a morning routine. He wakes up at 4 a.m., when the windows of his Fitchburg, Wisconsin, home are still sheets of black. After watching the news, he heads to the sunroom at the rear ...

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Roscoe Mitchell is one of the last surviving titans of a pioneering generation of fearlessly experimental jazz musicians. At age 82, this Renaissance man continues to push the envelope in several ...

In his recent book about the AACM, A Power Stronger Than Itself (University of Chicago, 2007), trombonist/composer/critic George Lewis makes a serious, thoroughly researched argument for its members ...

Roscoe Mitchell has released a new album, 'Distant Radio Transmission.' The first Piece 'Distant Radio Transmission' was first recorded as an improvisation by Roscoe Mitchell, Craig Taborn, and ...

Programming works involving improvisation would be one way to encourage ensembles to make classical music more inclusive. By Seth Colter Walls Our writers are usually busy covering performances.

In his last local performances before leaving the Bay Area, Roscoe Mitchell appears twice next weekend at Mission District arts space The Lab. The renowned saxophonist and composer’s professorship at ...

Fifty years after the Art Ensemble of Chicago first became an internationally known force in avant-garde music, co-founder Roscoe Mitchell has no plans to make any major changes to the group’s working ...