Roscoe Mitchell (US) + Louis Moholo-Moholo (ZA) at Copenhagen Jazz Festival at Copenhagen Jazzhouse

ROSCOE MITCHELL
Simply one of the heaviest people alive. founding member of the art ensemble of chicago. has played with just about everybody. roscoe mitchel is one of the brightest stars and true innovators of the music. today he is 76 years old

CHARLIE BURNHAM
The most working violinist in New York City. He is a fearless improvisor, a great singer and spans from the outest stuff with Cooper-Moore and Susie Ibarra to James Blood Ulmer´s Odessy and work with Rufus Wainwright, Joan As Police Woman, John Zorn, Steven Bernstein, Henry Threadgill and Cassandra Wilson.
Today he is 66 years old. He is a deeply musical creature who has an almost magical ability to create something very special every time he play music. He has no musical boundaries. He can sing a Hank Williams tune and take it to mars the next second....

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ROSCOE MITCHELL
Simply one of the heaviest people alive. founding member of the art ensemble of chicago. has played with just about everybody. roscoe mitchel is one of the brightest stars and true innovators of the music. today he is 76 years old

CHARLIE BURNHAM
The most working violinist in New York City. He is a fearless improvisor, a great singer and spans from the outest stuff with Cooper-Moore and Susie Ibarra to James Blood Ulmer´s Odessy and work with Rufus Wainwright, Joan As Police Woman, John Zorn, Steven Bernstein, Henry Threadgill and Cassandra Wilson.
Today he is 66 years old. He is a deeply musical creature who has an almost magical ability to create something very special every time he play music. He has no musical boundaries. He can sing a Hank Williams tune and take it to mars the next second.

KAREN BORCA
Mrs Borca is the worlds first and only improvisor who exclusively plays the bassoon (på dansk fagot). She was married to Jimmy Lyons and was a very important voice in his ensembles the last 12 years of his life. Since the early 70s she has been working with her own ensembles and in bands with Cecil Taylor, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Dixon, Joel Futterman, Alan Silva, William Parker, Sonny Simmons and countless others. A true pioneer of improvised music

LOUIS MOHOLO-MOHOLO
last surviving member of the south african band The Blue Notes. today he lives in south africa but for many years he was in exile in england. one of the worlds most original drummers and first generation improvisor. he is today 76 years old and has worked with
Derek Bailey, Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Enrico Rava, Roswell Rudd, Irène Schweizer, Cecil Taylor, John Tchicai, Archie Shepp, Peter Brötzmann, Mike Osborne, Keith Tippett, Elton Dean and Harry Miller.
A true survivor of the music. a man who wanted to be free and show the world how to be it!

WARREN SMITH
Who has played with Anthony Braxton, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Henry Threadgill, Van Morrison, Count Basie, Julius Hemphill, Sam Rivers, Tony Williams, Max Roach, Gil Evans, Muhal Richard Abrams, Kalaparusha, Joe Zawinul, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick, Harry Bellafonte, Nat King Cole, Barbra Streisand, Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrel, was musical director for Janis Joplin in 1969 and played with Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Jaki Byard, JJ Johnson and Jimmy Smith, not to mention Nina Simone, Merce Cunningham and Sun Ra?
only one person on the planet has done all that.
the legenday WARREN SMITH. today he is 82 years old and still playing amazing drums, perc and vibraphone. a total master of improvisation and a classical trained percussionist who has worked with the Boston symphony orchestra.

Pandelis Karayorgis

Boston-based highly personal improvisor who studied with Joe Maneri. In the nineties he worked closely with violinist Mat Maneri producing several recordings mostly in duo format. During the same time also co-led a group with Eric Pakula featuring much of the Tristano repertoire, and collaborated with Argentine saxophonist and composer Guillermo Gregorio.

He recorded for labels such as Cadence, Leo, Nuscope, OkkaDisk, Clean Feed, hatOLOGY, Not Two, and Driff, an artist-run label co-founded by Karayorgis and Jorrit Dijkstra. Some of the most extensive recording/performing collaborations have been with Nate McBride, Curt Newton, Luther Gray, Jef Charland, Randy Peterson, Ken Vandermark and Dave Rempis. His projects include the Pandelis Karayorgis Trio, the electric trio mi3, the quartet Construction Party, the quintet System of 5 and the Whammies, a group dedicated to the music of Steve Lacy.

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