Beat avant-garde was neither a movement, nor a style or a musical genre. It lasted for five, maybe six years – ranging from around 1968 to 1974. Xawery Stańczyk explores this small island in the ...

The music he creates goes far beyond the boundaries of any genre known to human kind and his creative energy seems to be limitless. Eugeniusz Rudnik entered the avant-garde music scene in 1955 with ...

You can get avant-garde, but you know everybody’s with you ... Those forays into more popular music have their own threads The Bad Plus follows. At the same time, there’s also a freer-flowing ...

Zorn has long been a central figure in New York’s “Downtown” music scene, a community of avant-garde musicians and artistic experimentalists centralized in Manhattan. His work is constantly ...

Cutouts surely can’t have anywhere near that impact. But it is thrilling nonetheless: a plunge into the more avant-garde side ...