Milo Fine / Jason S. Shapiro / Scott Newell / Charles Gillett January 8, 2007
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55411
Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste or inclination of the musician(s) involved; in many cases the musicians make an active effort to avoiding overt references to recognizable musical genres. The term is somewhat paradoxical, since it can be considered both as a technique (employed by any musician who wishes to disregard rigid genres and forms) and as a recognizable genre in its own right.
"Free improvisation," as a style of music, developed in the U.S. and Europe in the mid and late 1960s, largely as an outgrowth of free jazz and modern classical musics.
(Wikipedia: "Free Improvisation")
Added by fetik3 on September 26, 2006
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fetik3
Rokken with Dokken, 24/7!
fetik3
From the Star Tribune:
Nothing about Milo Fine is smooth or easy. For more than 30 years, the pianist, percussionist, clarinetist and educator has reigned as Minnesota’s most ferocious jazz iconoclast, a monster of free improvisation whose small but dedicated coterie of fans stretches across the globe. Nonbelievers liken his sound to baby elephants fighting in a coffee-can museum. But squint your ears, listen closely and the method behind Fine’s madness might shine through. The first of a three-part series, Monday night’s performance finds him sharing Homewood Studios’ stage with the comparably formidable saxophonist and vocalist Scott Newell, guitarist Charles Gillette and synthesist Jason S. Shapiro. (Rod Smith)
Homewood Studios
2400 Plymouth Av. N.
Minneapolis, MN
612-587-0230
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jason s. shapiro ROCKS ! =)