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| ELAINE
BARKIN
Elaine
R. Barkin joined the UCLA music faculty in 1974 and retired
in 1997. Her music has been recorded on CRI & OPEN SPACE;
her writings have been published in new music journals. In
1980 she began exploring real-time interactive music-making
out of which emerged UCLA1s Experimental Workshop. An involvement
with Gamelan, beginning in 1987, took ERB to Bali 5 summers
to document Balinese New Music.
Since
1990 she, Ben Boretz, and Jim Randall have co-produced the
OPEN SPACE series of CDs, books, and scores. In Fall 1996,
ERB taught a Semester at Sea and journeyed around the world.
With Lydia Hamessley she co-edited the book Audible Traces:
gender, identity, and music (1999). Recent compositions include:
Poem (symphonic wind ensemble; 1999), Song for Sarah (violin
solo; 2001), Ode (16 woodwinds & percussion; 2002), and
15 Easy Pieces for Sue DeVale1s harp students; 2002-03). |
STEVE
DALACHINSKY
Steve
Dalachinsky is a poet, and an integral part of New York’s
“downtown” music scene. His recent discs include
Incomplete Directions on Knitting Factory, and a duet CD with
drummer Frederico Ughi.
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VERNON
FRAZER
Vernon Frazer is a poet and jazz bassist. He has many books
and recordings, including several collaborations, notably Song
of the Baobab, with the lamented Thomas Chapin. Vernon’s
Sex Goddess of the Berlin Turnpike is back as a CD. |
BERNARDO
GONZALEZ L.
Bernardo Gonzalez is a painter from Mexico City. After completing
a series of works celebrating the traditional dress of the
various Mexican states, he’s just completed his newest
series, Las Monjas, or The Nuns. Each has an individual story
to tell about her experiences; you just have to listen closely.
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SKIP
HELLER
Skip Heller
is an active jazz musician and film composer in Los Angeles.
He lives quietly in the Whitley Heights district with his
wife and record
collection. His activities can be monitored at http://www.skipheller.com
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STEVE
KOENIG, EDITOR
Steve
Koenig is a member of the Jazz Journalists Association. His
work has been published in All About Jazz-New York, AllAboutJazz.com,
JazzWeekly.com, LaFolia.com, OneFinalNote.com, Outside (S.F.),
Signal to Noise and other mags. His poems have been published
in Brooklyn Day Of The Poet, Diseased Pariah News, planetAUTHORity,
Poetry In Performance, Sensations Magazine, Unbearable Assembling
Magazine, and other magazines.
His work
was included in two international exhibitions September 2002.
His bilingual poem “Climb To Inspiration/El Rombo al
Inspiración” was part of an art exhibition entitled
“And the Music" in Oaxaca, Mexico, alongside the
painting by Bernardo Gonzalez which inspired it. Steve’s
poetry recordings with Cooper-Moore, Gunter Hampel, and Satoko
Fujii, among others, were included in the “Musicircus”
performance in the University of Southampton (UK) "Cage
2002 - 90/10" festival marking John Cage's 90th birthday
and the 10th anniversary of his death. He’s also a teacher
and political activist for humanist causes including LGBT
rights and Tourette’s Syndrome, and collaborates with
artists and musicians in New York City and Mexico City.
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JOSEFINA
JORDáN
Josefina
Jordán lives in Mexico City. She holds a Master of
Visual Arts degree from the Antiqua Academia de San Carlos,
UNAM, the most prestigious art school in México. She
specializes in xilografia, print making.
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HOWARD
MANDEL
Howard
Mandel is a writer, author of Future Jazz (Oxford University
Press), editor of www.Jazzhouse.org, president of the Jazz
Journalists Association, reports for National Public Radio,
and teaches about American music at NYU. His articles, columns
and essays in the past year have appeared in Down Beat, Jazziz,
Signal To Noise, Musical America, The Wire (London); Swing
Journal (Tokyo); he writes liner notes, and is a major contributor
to the upcoming Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular
Music Since 1990. Mandel, who lives in downtown New York,
rides a bike, plays flutes, and is at work on a book about
jazz faces of the avant garde.
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DAVID
MESSINEO
David
Messineo is the Publisher of Sensations Magazine, a three-time
winner in the American Literary Magazine Awards (see www.sensationsmag.com
for details). He is the author of four poetry books: First
Impressions, Suburban Gothic, A Taste of Italy, and Restoration.
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CRAIG
NIXON, MANAGING EDITOR
Craig
Nixon is a music writer, bassist, and host/producer of jazz
radio
programs. For four years he produced the critically acclaimed
Revolution
In Sound, one of the leading proponents of new jazz on the
airwaves on
the East Coast, also broadcast worldwide via the internet.
Formerly
the editor of the Jazzroom.com website, his reviews, interviews
and features have appeared, both in print and online, in publications
such as Perfect Sound Forever, the Woodstock Times and Jazziz.
Originally based in New York, he now lives in Greenville,
South Carolina.
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| EVE
PACKER
Eve Packer is a poet with several CDs to her
name, often in collaboration with saxophonist Noah Howard,
on Boxholder Records.
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ROBERT
REIGLE
Robert Reigle is a tenor saxophonist. He holds degrees in music
education and music composition, and a Doctorate in ethnomusicology
from UCLA. Reviews of his recordings appeared in Cadence, Downbeat,
and Musician. Three recent CDs are currently available, featuring
his own compositions as well as pieces by Christian Asplund,
Albert Ayler, Luigi Nono, Giacinto Scelsi, and a Papua New Guinean
traditional melody performed in duet with a New Guinean saxophonist.
Reigle taught ethnomusicology and saxophone at the University
of Papua New Guinea from 1990 to 1993, where he served as Dean
of the Faculty of Creative Arts. He has performed two tributes
to Albert Ayler (in Seattle and New York) and two concerts celebrating
Ornette Coleman's birthday (at California Institute of the Arts
and the University of California Los Angeles). His group Surrealeastate
performed a Surrealism in Music concert in conjunction with
an exhibit of art by Rene Magritte at the Armand Hammer Museum
in Los Angeles.
He is currently teaching ethnolmusicology
in Istanbul, and composer Iancu Dumitrescu has written several
new compositions for him.
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| FRANK
RUBOLINO
Frank Rubolino has been an avid supporter
of jazz since the 1950s. As a serious traveler seeking out
live jazz performances and festivals throughout the world,
he began documenting his thoughts for his personal files in
the early 1970s and has continued that practice. Frank currently
is an active member of the Cadence staff, having had his first
freelance works published by the magazine in 1992. In 1997,
he became a regular staff writer for Cadence and has contributed
over 1,500 reviews since then. He also has written CD liner
notes for numerous jazz artists including Kidd Jordan, Joel
Futterman, Dennis Gonzalez, Rob Blakeslee, Dennis Warren,
Ike Levin, and others. Frank was a staff writer for One Final
Note, the now dormant on-line jazz magazine, since its inception
in 1999, during which time his interviews, reviews, and photographs
of live performances were prominently featured. He currently
contributes photo essays, concert reviews, and CD reviews
to the on-line magazine All About Jazz. His photographs have
also appeared in Cadence, Downbeat, and The Wire. Frank is
a native Pittsburgher but currently lives in Houston where
he continues to document the local creative music scene. His
educational background includes degrees from Duquesne University
in Pittsburgh and Southern Methodist University in Dallas,
and by day, he is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified
Fraud Examiner.
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STEVE
SMITH
Steve Smith writes about music for Time Out New York, and has
contributed to Billboard, Chamber Music Magazine, The Wire,
the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Village Voice and
many other publications. Prior to his journalistic career, he
spent several years working at a number of record companies,
performance venues and P.R. firms, as well as undertaking D.I.Y.
efforts with musicians such as Tim Berne, Bobby Previte and
Dave Douglas. Smith moved to New York from Houston, TX (where
he had been a classical music radio DJ and aspiring rock drummer)
in 1993, and met Irving and Stephanie Stone very soon afterward. |
| BARRY
WALLENSTEIN
Barry has a special interest in the performance
of jazz and poetry together. He has made four recordings of
his poetry with jazz collaboration, the most recent being
Tony's Blues, on Cadence Jazz Records [CJR 1124, 2001]. “I
love the experience of working with jazz artists and have
been performing and recording with the likes of Cecil McBee,
John Hicks, Charles Tyler, Bobby Few, Wilber Morris, Fred
Hopkins, and Jay Leonhart since the early 1970s. His LP Taking
Off was rereleased as a CD by BleuRegard in Paris. “The
music helps make my poetry more accessible than just when
read on the page, but at the end of the day, it's on the page
that I want my poems to sing.”
Barry Wallenstein is the author of five collections
of poetry, Beast Is a Wolf With Brown Fire, (BOA Editions,
1977), Roller Coaster Kid (T.Y. Crowell, 1982), Love and Crush
(Persea Books, 1991), The Short Life of the Five Minute Dancer
(Ridgeway Press, 1993),A Measure of Conduct (Ridgeway Press,
1999). His poetry has appeared in over 100 journals in the
U.S. and abroad, in such places as Transatlantic Review, The
Nation, Centennial Review, and American Poetry Review. A group
of new poems has recently been translated into Chinese by
Professor Wan Ning, for the magazine Contemporary Foreign
Literature, 2001, an anthology of post-beat poetry. His 1971
book Visions & Revisions: The Poets’ Practice [T.Y.Crowell]
was reissued in a new and expanded edition by Broadview Press
[2002].
He is a Professor of literature and creative writing at the
City University of New York Currently, and Director of City
College's Poetry Outreach Center. He is editor of the American
Book Review. In 1995 he received a fellowship to The MacDowell
Colony. In Cape Town, South Africa, he helped establish a
creative writing outreach program in 2001 where he met with
the administration of the faculty to similar to the one that
exists at City College. In 2003 he traveled to the south of
France to conduct poetry workshops in schools, and present
readings with French and African musicians.
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| LES
ZAKARIN
Les Zakarin
worked in the comic industry in the late 1940s until the mid
1950s as an inker. He inked comic books such as Buccaneers,
Capt. Daring, Sheena Queen of the Jungle, and inked some of
the original 3-D type comic books which first came out in
the 1950s. He inked for well-known comic artists such as Reed
Crandell, Bob Webb, Joe Kubet and John Romita. From the mid50s
on he went to college and into engineering, but has continued
to do cartooning for pleasure. His Zaks correlate to Hirschfield’s
Ninas. He passed away in 2002.
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