The Cory Wright Outfit consists of Cory Wright, Evan Francis, Rob Ewing, Lisa Mezzacappa, Jordan Glenn.

St. Bruno's Preview (from their debut album Apples + Oranges) is a brief piece that highlights the Wright's orchestral & harmonic sense that is heard throughout this album.

Reeds player Cory Wright has been involved in both the jazz and creative music worlds for the past 20 years, including time spent in New York, Los Angeles and his current home in the San Francisco bay area. Cory has played in ensembles lead by Anthony Braxton, Vinny Golia, Eddie Gale, Adam Rudolph and Yusef Lateef. He is currently a member of bay area groups Bristle, Wiener Kids, Daniel Popsicle, and the Oakland Active Orchestra, and leads his own projects Green Mitchell and the Cory Wright Outfit.

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Cory Wright Outfit: St. Bruno's Preview

The Cory Wright Outfit consists of Cory Wright, Evan Francis, Rob Ewing, Lisa Mezzacappa, Jordan Glenn.

Low Impact Critter (from their debut album Apples + Oranges) uses smartly orchestrated passages to put the players in a variety of improvised settings, and gives us a sense of the many possibilities of the Outfit.

Reeds player Cory Wright has been involved in both the jazz and creative music worlds for the past 20 years, including time spent in New York, Los Angeles and his current home in the San Francisco bay area. Cory has played in ensembles lead by Anthony Braxton, Vinny Golia, Eddie Gale, Adam Rudolph and Yusef Lateef. He is currently a member of bay area groups Bristle, Wiener Kids, Daniel Popsicle, and the Oakland Active Orchestra, and leads his own projects Green Mitchell and the Cory Wright Outfit.

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Cory Wright Outfit: Low Impact Critter

A open ended jazz trio from Oakland, California. Aram Shelton, alto saxophone, Scott Brown, bass and Alex Vittum, drums. Drawing from Shelton’s bright and even folk-like compositions, the trio weaves continuously through melody, rhythm, and texture with written parts serve as entry points for spacious improvisations.  All three members play almost continuously, keeping the voices of melody, harmony and rhythm on an even level.

From the album "On and On". Singlespeed Music SSM-013

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Ton Trio II: Orange Poppies

An excerpt from the Overture to Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack, …Awaits Silent Tristero’s Empire, a ‘musical phantasmagoria’ inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s novels V. Wrack is comprised of Kyle Bruckmann (oboe, english horn), Jason Stein (bass clarinet), Jen Clare Paulson (viola), Darren Johnston (trumpet), Jeb Bishop (trombone), Anton Hatwich (bass), and Tim Daisy (percussion) .

Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack: ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire Overture (excerpt)

An excerpt from part 1 of …Awaits Silent Tristero’s Empire, a ‘musical phantasmagoria’ inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s novels V.  
Wrack is comprised of Kyle Bruckmann (oboe, english horn), Jason Stein (bass clarinet), Jen Clare Paulson (viola), Darren Johnston (trumpet), Jeb Bishop (trombone), Anton Hatwich (bass), and Tim Daisy (percussion) .

Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack: W.A.S.T.E. Part 1 (excerpt)

The first track from Resounder, a hybrid improvised electroacoustic album from the trio of Aram Shelton, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and Frank Rosaly. Long time collaborators through the Chicago sextet Fast Citizens (Delmark), this album is a clear departure from their previous work together. 

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Shelton Lonberg-Holm Rosaly: Fading Memory

The third track from Resounder, a hybrid improvised electroacoustic album from the trio of Aram Shelton, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and Frank Rosaly. Long time collaborators through the Chicago sextet Fast Citizens (Delmark), this album is a clear departure from their previous work together. 

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Shelton Lonberg-Holm Rosaly : The Listening Point

The Aram Shelton Quartet features Chicago-based musicians Keefe Jackson, Anton Hatwich and Tim Daisy. Related to the Fast Citizens (Delmark), of which Shelton, Jackson and Hatwich are all members, this quartet displays a musical range on their debut album "These Times" that encompasses free swing, creative improvisation, space & patience, and fiery energy.

The title track features Shelton, Jackson, Hatwich and Marc Riordan on drums. The tune goes through several changes, strating with a melodic statement, moving to a patient drum solo, followed by a section of free improvisation with alto, bass & drums, which morphs into a solid groove with a tenor saxophone lead.

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Aram Shelton Quartet: These Times

A live version of "All Dressed Up", originally heard on the 2005 release "Arrive" on 482 Music.

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Arrive: All Dressed Up

Arts & Sciences is a genre-bending quartet rooted in the jazz and improvising traditions but borrowing extensively from pop song writing and old field recordings. The group features a unique instrumentation of alto and tenor saxophones, monophonic synths, vintage organs and drums as well as a variety of hand percussion and singing. Compositionally, the group takes it's cues from a wide range of past masters, including Sun Ra, Tim Berne's Bloodcount and Oakland-based experimental pop geniuses, The Curtains. The music fluctuates between through-composed vignettes and lengthier suite-like pieces that seamlessly weave together written material and improvisation. Texture and timbre are as important as melody and harmony and within one song, the group may move from a free jazz cacophony to an undulating polyrhythmic groove. Musical borders are crossed in an attempt to bring listeners into a aural wonderland where lyricism and dissonance not only co-exist but buoy each other.

Michael Coleman, Matt Nelson, Jacob Zimmerman, Jordan Glenn

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Arts & Sciences: Baby Boner (Excerpt)

Arts & Sciences is a genre-bending quartet rooted in the jazz and improvising traditions but  borrowing extensively from pop song writing and old field recordings. The group features a unique instrumentation of alto and tenor saxophones, monophonic synths, vintage organs and drums as well as a variety of hand percussion and singing. Compositionally, the group takes it's cues from a wide range of past masters, including Sun Ra, Tim Berne's Bloodcount and Oakland-based experimental pop geniuses, The Curtains. The music fluctuates between through-composed vignettes and lengthier suite-like pieces that seamlessly weave together written material and improvisation. Texture and timbre are as important as melody and harmony and within one song, the group may move from a free jazz cacophony to an undulating polyrhythmic groove. Musical borders are crossed in an attempt to bring listeners into a aural wonderland where lyricism and dissonance not only co-exist but buoy each other.

Michael Coleman, Matt Nelson, Jacob Zimmerman, Jordan Glenn

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Arts & Sciences: Shunting (Excerpt)

The Aram Shelton Quartet plays creative jazz music inspired by the likes of Ornette Coleman,  Dolphy,  Mingus and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.  In his quartet, Shelton is joined by Chicagoans Keefe Jackson on tenor saxophone, Anton Hatwich on bass, and Tim Daisy on drums.

This is the first track off their album "Everything for Somebody".  It's got a strong, memorable melody and a lot of energy. 

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Aram Shelton Quartet: Anticipation

Avant / creative jazz and improvised music from Oakland and Chicago.   
Artists include Gold Age, Wrack, Ton Trio II, Cory Wright Outfit, Arts & Sciences, Aram Shelton Quartet, Dragons 1976, Arrive, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Frank Rosaly, Kjell Nordeson, Jason Adasiewicz, Kyle Bruckmann, Michael Coleman, Anton Hatwich, Tim Daisy, Jason Ajemian, Jordan Glenn, Sam Ospovat, Jason Roebke, Marc Riordan, Matt Nelson, Kanoko Nishi, Josh Berman, Jacob Zimmerman, and Weasel Walter. Singlespeed Music began as the private label of multi-instrumentalist and composer Aram Shelton in 2006. www.singlespeedmusic.org

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