Fully Altered client Ars Nova Workshop, Philadelphia’s premiere presenter of innovative jazz and creative music, was recently profiled by WHYY’s Arts & Culture reporter Alexandra Schmidt:
Philadelphia has an important jazz history, having launched the careers of John Coltrane and Philly Joe Jones. More recently, the experimental music scene is on the upswing and it may soon be finding its place on the world map. . . .
Photograph by Ethan Levitas
Gary Giddins wrote about Rudresh Mahanthappa in a recent New Yorker piece.
Jazz musicians have two fundamental goals: creating music that keeps listeners wondering what’s next, and finding a novel context within which to explore old truths. (There are no new truths.) Whenever a musician achieves this synthesis, usually after years of apprenticeship and exploration, a rumble echoes through the jazz world. Such a rumble was heard last fall, when the thirty-seven-year-old alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa released an astonishing album . . .
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