REVIEWS: Cohorts,and related links

My long time buddy Jeff Martin , a wonderful writer, has written one of my fave recent books called "The Sleeper,The Journals of John Hardin. Check it out at Jeff's site at:

'The Sleeper , The Journals of John Hardin'

Splendid E-zine reviews: GloryLand PonyCat: B...
Black Ants Crawling
The first notes of Black Ants Crawling come in a seductive, fluid run from George Cartwright's tenor sax, lingering at first like a sultry teenage girl on a dead sidewalk at night before hitching up its bustline in a self-conscious moment of sexual exhilaration. ..." -- Matt Pierce


"To paraphrase John Lennon, an avant-garde hero is something to be. And saxophonist George Cartwright, who has lived quietly in our midst for three years, certainly qualifies as one..."
 
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RELATED LINKS:


I went to a music school for a while called The Creative Music Studio. A wonderful place that continues in one form or another to this day. For info on it you can go to http://cmsupdate.blogspot.com .

There's even a book called Music Universe, Music Mind:Revisiting the Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, New York that you can find out about at http://www.arborville.com/cms/ordermumm.html. It's written Bob Sweet.

CURLEW - CUNEIFORM RECORDS get almost all of Curlew and George Cartwright cds here along with access to their amazing catalogue of great music and bands

ROARATORIO RECORDS you can purchase Curlew's 'Gussie' LP here along with some other wonderful music.
INNOVA RECORDS you can buyGeorge's band GloryLand PonyCat's cd 'Black Ants Crawling' , George's ' Ghostly Bee' and 'A Tenacious Slew'
THE FOG Andrew Broder's band and web site. great music, cool stuff to buy and we have a duoLP
coming out on Roaratorio in the summer. Amazing music.

_holomaya.com_ the web site for Troy Zaushny, the guy who made this site. You NEED to go there. And I wouldn't kid you about it.
SPARKLE STREET This is the site for Michael DeCapite and his pals. Great writing here. You should do whatever it takes to get and read 'Through The Windshield' by Mike. I'll be happy you did.

THE CLOWN LOUNGE The place to hear music in St Paul and Minneapolis on Sunday
and Monday nights and to hang any night you'd like
the improvisor the international journal on free improvisation
2608 Millbrook Lane
Birmingham, Alabama 35243
USA

Weblog Entry - 05-23-2003 New George Cartwright Release

"Curlew's leader is the front man of a new band, GloryLand PonyCat, who have released their first effort on Innova. ..."

 WAC Calendar November 2003 Michelle Kinney-George Cartwright New Music-New Voices
"Two national innovators in contemporary and improvised music (and recent Twin Cities transplants)--cellist/composer Michelle Kinney (Henry Threadgill, Butch Morris) and saxophonist/composer George Cartwright (Curlew)--assemble remarkable groups of instrumentalists from New York and Minneapolis to present their new compositions..."
George Cartwright - The Memphis Years - CD Review
ALL ABOUT JAZZ ~ written by Glenn Astarita
George Cartwright | Cuneiform
"Saxophonist/composer George Cartwright’s musical heritage or persona may represent somewhat of an anomaly. Born and reared in blues-orientated Mississippi, Cartwright went on to study with the likes of notable modern jazz icons such as, Anthony Braxton, Oliver Lake, Wadada Leo Smith and others while subsequently reeking havoc on the New York Downtown scene..."
~ written by Glenn Astarita
Music Turn Up That Noise (Memphis Flyer . 02-07-00)
By Stephen Grimstead
FEBRUARY 7, 2000:
"Once again, George Cartwright and his cohorts do a fine job of making my job tougher. The music on this new CD is very fresh, free, uninterested in musical clichés, and often defies the efforts of a hack reviewer like me to adequately describe it."
oodiscs #54 EXQUISITE CORPSES FROM PS 122 (1999)
"oodiscs #54 features thirty downtown New York City improvisers applying variations to multi-track group improvisations. A wild hybrid of structure and chaos which sounds astonishing coherent. Composers include David Watson, Judy Dunaway, Anthony Coleman, Guy Yarden, Doug Henderson, Nancy Campbell, George Cartwright, Chris Cochrane, Paul Hoskin, Ikue Mori, Matthew Ostrowski, Catherine Jauniaux, Zeena Parkins, Steve Peters, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and others."

VIVO
uINFO VIVO 02/2003
"Skrze³tnie pomijane w krajowych podsumowaniach roku vivowe wydawnictwa,
dostaja³ wysokie noty u zachodnich dziennikarzy. Oto kolejne dowody uznania:
 Aural Planet -5ex Engine znalaz? sie³ w TOP10 2002 tym razem..."

Whatever that says...this is a place to listen to a bunch of interesting music, including George Cartwright.
Ragazzi - website für erregende Musik
Curlew "Meet The Curlews!" (Cuneiform Records 2002)
"Wenn man die Knitting Factory beschreiben will, kann man ganz einfach Curlew sagen. Der Alternative Jazz klingt nur in New York so. Vielleicht ist es die Vertonung des Lebensgefühls,..." -VM
machina
Read a short review of George Cartwright's "The Mempis Years" in some eastern european language.
MEMPHIS JAZZ UNDERGROUND HOME
"George Cartwright (former Memphian and world renown sax man) returns to Memphis on SUNDAY, MARCH 23RD for a one of a kind performance. Be sure to make this concert and witness the Memphis debut of FIRE ANT MUSIC"
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COHORTS:

Alden Ikeda - Minneapolis, MN based Musician Twin Cities Music Network

Alden Ikeda, drummer of Gloryland Ponycat
Davey Home Davey Williams home page

George Cartwright by Dan Ball
see some of Dan Ball's photography

Gary Hassay 's site is here. where you'll find out not nearly all that you need to know about improvised creative music in Allentown, PA location ot ImprovCo and Dr Vincent Sakeeda's Attack Ensemble. Gary is a wonderful and unique saxophone player and musician. You need to hear him...
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