Ingrid Laubrock's Anti-House

The title of this post is the name of a jazz musician and her group. A very interesting name and even more interesting is their brand of avant garde jazz. Check out this review of their latest, Strong Place, which features up-and-coming guitarist Mary Halvorson.

A Song From The East

I am listening to the Trio for Violin, Viola and Guitar, Op. 33 by Sándor Jemnitz, performed by David Starobin (Guitar), Benjamin Hudson (Violin), Kim Kashkashian (Viola) on the titled album. From Wikipedia:

Sándor Jemnitz, also known as Alexander Jemnitz (9 August 1890 in Budapest – 8 August 1963 in Balatonföldvár), was a Hungarian composer, conductor, music critic and author. Jemnitz's musical style is heavily influenced by Reger and Schoenberg.

It was a very unusual chamber music instrument combination but yielding interesting result. The reason I'm listening to it is that I am also reading an interview of violist Kim Kashkashian (whose name reminds me of you-know-who) from the Strings magazine. Sometimes I wonder why I still subscribe to the magazine since I have enough free interesting articles of it to read on the web already. Oh well, the magazine's website needs paid subscriber to survive I suppose.