By Eric Dawson Nate Wooley has been an extremely active trumpet player in the New York jazz and improv world since the turn of the millennium, collaborating with a dazzling array of musicians with a broad range of sounds.…
Big Ears 2018 – Bang on a Can Celebrating 30 Years
There is only one thing surprising about Bang On A Can founders Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon being composers-in-residence at the 2018 Big Ears Festival. The surprise is that it hasn’t happened before now. It is simply impossible…
Big Ears 2018 – Q&A with Nels Cline
Nels Cline was already well on his way to becoming a guitar hero when he got the call to join Wilco in 2004. Though that gig brought his playing to a much wider audience, in the preceding 20-plus years Cline had played with a mind-boggling array of top notch musicians on more than 200 albums, in addition to his solo recording and groups Nels Cline Trio and Nels Cline Singers.