Tag: Kanoa Mendenhall

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'Where your attention is, that becomes lively' is just one of the quotes or aphorisms which David Lynch tends to fall back upon whenever he is asked to explain the nature of ideas or creativity or in his own inimitable helium-winged Midwestern way, the consuming happenstance of 'catching the big fish'. Lynch with his longtime collaborative partner Chrystabell are...

María Grand and Camila Nebbia engage in a wary then headlong embrace in the opening moments of their new quintet outing Altered Visions, circling one another and meeting rhapsodically with a bump amid a few piano squibs and swishing bells. The effort marks the debut release of Lilaila Records, a new venture from the tenor saxophonist Grand, who composed...

When the baritone saxophone specialist and former Downtown stalwart Dave Sewelson and the visceral guitar virtuoso Ava Mendoza first conceived the idea of a duo album, the expectation was that they'd veer in the tried and true direction of a free jazz squall, heading into the studio one afternoon in the flush of autumn and letting it all hang...