Jazz and Creative Music mailing lists
For the un-initiated, mailing lists fall into a couple main categories:
- Calendar type, where you subscribe and occasionally get e-mail announcing events
- listserv type, where music is discussed by everyone sending e-mail to the listserv, which then forwards it to everyone on the list (either automatically, or with a "moderator" who chooses what gets passed along)
To sign onto our e-mail mailing list
(you'll receive monthly notification of our shows and very occasional information about special events), or for more information about Beanbender's, send me e-mail right here and now: dan@plonsey.com.We now have two Bay Area regional mailing lists for discussion of local creative music / improvisation: ba-newmus, which covers improvisation, new music, and whatever; and also ba-improv, which covers the same subjects, but as part of a national set of "-improv" lists. In this set, you may find the following regional lists (more in development):
- SF Bay Area: ba-improv
- Chicago: chi-improv
- Boston: boss-improv
- Philadelphia/Baltimore: phiba-improv
- Michigan: mich-improv
- SouthEast US: se-improv
- Rocky Mountain states: rockies-improv
- Pacific Northwest: pnw-improv
subscribe list-name
(listname = chi-improv, etc)
There is also a euro free improv mailing list."
Here is a comprehensive list of mailing lists (including Sun Ra, Miles, Coltrane, jazz, etc.).
Radio Stations
- Livingroom Radio, internet broadcast of creative music. Also links to other stations.
- KZSU radio, Stanford 90.1FM. Supporters of a wide range of creative music, generally the best station in the Bay Area for creative music. They also have the "Day of Noise" once a year, so stay tuned! An extensive web-site.
- WFMU radio station ditto, plus a catalog assortment of the Unusual and Profound.
- WREK - Georgia Tech.
- WNUR - a truly vast list of jazz and creative musicians; many bios and discographies and images.
- KFJC, Los Altos Hills. 89.7FM. Foothill College radio station, located between San Francisco and Palo Alto, one of the Bay Area's best stations for creative music - and friendly, competent staff!
- KALX, Berkeley. 90.7FM University of California at Berkeley student radio station. By national standards, KALX is pretty decent college radio; I listen to 'em a fair amount. But just try to schedule an interview with these bozos!
- KUSF, San Francisco. 90.3FM.
Similar in many respects to KALX.
- Prem Lall,6-9AM, Monday, "Genre Oblivious" music.
- KPFA, Berkeley. 94.1FM. Pacifica's Berkeley radio station. They program a mix of world music, creative music, and lots of political shows with a left/radical perspective. Lately they've generated controversy by firing older programmers with extensive knowledge of roots music and the avant garde, and replaced them with a young crew seemingly chosen to appeal to a less sophisticated (and hence, presumably, larger) audience. But they've still got a number of excellent programmers. KPFA has its own organized opposition: Take Back KPFA.
- Jazz Profiles schedule, on NPR.
Creative Music Journals, Zines, e-Zines, Books
- Cadence Magazine The most comprehensive journal of creative music worldwide.
- The Improvisor Published infrequently, this is an indispensable resource for interviews, reviews and essays by and about some of the most dedicated practitioners of free improv.
- The Wire. Creative music in many manifestations, including improv, electronica, classical. Much less genre-bound than Cadence and Coda.
- Coda Magazine: one of the longest-running jazz & creative music publications.
- One Final Note: online journal w/ reviews of CDS & concerts and other creative writing
- sOuNDz IMPOSSIBLE: an excellent online journal of improvised and experimental musics. Lots of interviews.
- pfMENTUM: a small but very thoughtful journal; usually one interview and a couple essays. Allied with the Ventura (California) New Music Concert Series.
- Signal to Noise: An international journal of improvised and experimental music (with a little Vermont news too), reviews of CDS, and interviews with major musicians, and best, a regular column by Eugene Chadbourne!
- OUTSIDE - a monthly
zine primarily devoted to free jazz and creative music in the SF Bay Area. Includes a
calendar of the month's events.
Edited by Jim Ryan:
- Art Papers. New music, creative music, electronica, whatever; articles, essays, reviews.
- Open Space, a magazine edited by Benjamin Boretz and Mary Lee Roberts, dedicated to "Creative responses to creative phenomena" and more.
- N D Small new music journal from Austin, Texas.
- Musings, online creative music zine, sort of, with essays, reviews, and upcoming events (UK)
- halana magazine
- Soundboard
- Music Universe, Music Mind: Revisiting the Creative Music Studio (Book)
- Browbeat "a zine dedicated to dissonance in all its glory."
- Goblin
- Gajoob/DiY Archive For DiY news (not just creative music). Available online, or as an e-mailed digest approx. once a month.
- Dick Metcalf's Improvijazzation Nation: online improv zine, w/ reviews, interviews, etc.
- ImprovisAsians Online! Newsletter of Asian American Creative Music.
- RoJaRo Index - index of "more than 250 music magazines from 20 different countries."
- Cuadernos de Jazz (Spanish jazz magazine. In Spanish.)
- Bienvenidos a JazzRed (Online Spanish jazz magazine. In Spanish.)
Creative Music Mail Order
- Cadence/North Country Mail Order Search. The best source for recorded jazz and creative music. Also the most comprehensive journal of creative music worldwide. Unfortunately, however, limited to the jazz families of music.
- Cuneiform and Wayside Music, a great mail order spot for obscure and creative music.
- Forced Exposure, another great mail order source for creative music not limited to the jazz family.
- GAIA Music Mart site (just opened, December 9, 1998) which provides a search engine, hit list and then the possibility of purchasing online. The labels that have agreed to participate are Acta, Bruce's Fingers, Emanem, Matchless, Paratactile, and Scatter. Cross-searching with Warp is also possible.
- Mole Jazz record auction (U.K.)
- A Free jazz and improvised music records mail order list (lps mostly, for collectors)
California-based Creative Music CD/Record Labels
You can find a great list of Creative Music labels worldwide at Peter Stubley's EFIP list of Independent Labels, complete with contact info, and some further links!Other North American Creative Music CD/Record Labels
- Sachimay (Boston)
- Intransitive Recordings
- Eremite Records
- Kali Records
- TAUTOLOGY RECORDS
- Sublingual Records
- AUM Fidelity
- Left Hand Right Ear Music
- New Music Site Seeing Tour: Composers, Ensembles, Magazines, Mailing Lists & Newsgroups, Organizations, Recording, Labels, Misc.
- Contemporary Music Links (Composers, New Music, Electronic and Computer Music, etc., from BONK Festival of New Music, Tampa Bay, FL)
- Electronic Music Foundation
- Music Theory Online
- Bay Area Improvisors' Network: venues, artists, CDs, etc.
- The Hear and Now: Derk Richardson's online column on local musical events across all genres (often "creative music"). Includes sound samples!
- San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner KRON-TV Jazz Guide. From mainstream to the avant garde.
- SF BAY GUARDIAN: Qualitative Guide To Bay Area Clubs
- Bay Area Local Music Scene
- Classified Flea Market
- Amoeba Music, Berkeley; perhaps the best record/CD store in the USA (and not just because they're one of our sponsors!!)
- Aquarius Records, a very cool San Francisco record store.
- Best Music Co., Oakland. A great place for band instruments and accessories.
- Small Press Distribution, Berkeley. Distributor, retailer and mail order source for small press books, including much unusual literature and many about music and the arts.
- Tinnitus Frequently Answered Questions
- The International Saxophone Home Page
- Creative Music Studio
- Jazz Corner's Speakeasy: interactive conference areas; buying/selling; reviews; etc.
- Free Jazz discussion billboard, plus links.
- A Great Day in Harlem. The famous 1958 photo of 57 jazz greats, now a searchable web-site with lots of little bios.
- American Song Poem Music Archives: lyrics and discographies of the "set your poems to music industry!"
- Scott Hreha's Creative Jazz site
- The Museum of Jurassic Technology - the world's greatest museum of Anomaly.
- WNUR - a truly vast list of jazz and creative musicians; many bios and discographies and images.
- European Free Improvisation home Mostly European, that is, maintained by Peter Stubley.
- Japanese Free Improvisors, maintained by Yoshiyuki Suzuki.
- Ken Hyder's links, with links to Tuvan, Russian, Chinese and Canterbury musicians.
- AMM
- Art Ensemble of Chicago
- Robert Ashley
- Albert Ayler
- Bang on a Can
- Han Bennink
- John Berndt
- Tony Bevan
- Jaap Blonk
- Anthony Braxton
- Willem Breuker Kollektief
- Gavin Bryars
- Buckethead
- Captain Beefheart
- Ralph Carney
- Eugene ChadbourneEugene'sown site.
- Eugene Chadbourne Ponk's "official" site.
- Eugene Chadbourne "unofficial fan club" site.
- Nels Cline
- Ornette Coleman.
- Ornette Coleman's Harmolodic Site
- Creative Opportunity Orchestra
- Ernest Dawkins
- Amy Denio
- Dreamland
- Marco Eneidi Discography
- Brian Eno
- Ellery Eskelin
- Eskimo
- Morton Feldman
- FLUXUS
- Fred Frith
- Fred Frith's Beanbender's site
- Eddie Gale
- Gianni Gebbia
- Phil Gelb
- Matthew Goodheart and Co.
- Morgan Guberman
- Barry Guy
- Billy Harper
- Gerry Hemingway
- Kato Hideki
- Matt Ingalls
- JOB
- Henry Kaiser
- Henry Kuntz
- Steve Lacy
- The Manufacturing of Humidifiers
- Tina Marsh and the CO2
- Keshavan Maslak
- Joe McPhee
- The Mekons
- Charles Mingus
- Roscoe Mitchell discography and links
- Thelonious Monk
- Christian Munthe
- Steve Norton & Curt Newton
- NRBQ
- Tom Nunn
- Pauline Oliveros Foundation Inc.
- John Oswald & Plunderphonics
- OPEYE
- Evan Parker
- Evan Parker (Beanbender's)
- Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton Trio
- Pere Ubu
- Tim Perkis
- Lee "Scratch" Perry
- Paul Plimley
- Dan Plonsey
- Dan Plonsey's Disaster Opera Theatre
- Plonsey/Hinds/Hinds/Ben-Ya'akova
- RzWeb: Ralph Records - includes Residents' home page
- Michael Ray
- Gino Robair
- Rent Romus
- The ROVA Sax Quartet
- ROVA discography
- Arnold Schoenberg www.johnschott.com
- John Schott
- Stephano Scodanibbio
- The Shaking Ray Levis>
- John Shiurba
- Wally Shoup
- Wadada Leo Smith
- Carl Stone
- Spacemen 3
- Glenn Spearman
- Glenn Spearman discography
- Matthew Sperry
- The Splatter Trio
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Sun Ra
- Supermarky
- Cecil Taylor discography
- John Tchicai
- Yoshihide Otomo
- Evan Ziporyn
- John Zorn
- Anthony Braxton Yahoogroup
- Mike Heffley site, with interviews and texts
- "The Third Millenial Interview" with Mike Heffley
- Ralph Dumain's commentary on above "Third Millenial Interview"
- Anthony Braxton Tricentric Foundation Site
- Anthony Braxton Discography
- Biography, discography, links, on AACM page.
- Tri-Axium Writings and other material from Frog Peak
- Forces in Motion, by Graham Lock. Outline, blurbs, cover photo.
- Wesleyan - Courses Taught/Teaching
- Restructuralism, Stylism, Traditionalism: interview with Graham Lock
- Braxton interviewed Ted Panken, February 5 1995, WKCR-FM, New York - an excellent, lengthy interview!
- Home Page at WNUR, with discography.
- Anthony Braxton's Better Worlds, by Chris Kelsey, for JAZZNOW.
- Links Brief bio, and list of links.
Other Lists of Creative Music / New Music Links
Other Local Music Links
Other Generally Useful and/or Worthy Stuff for Music-Lovers
Musicians' Web Sites
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