About a decade ago, back trouble forced Jessica Pavone to stop playing viola for nearly two years. Since her return, the impact of music upon the health and well-being of both performers and listeners has been one of the New York-based artist’s essential concerns. When she was composing the material for her most recent ensemble […]
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Mary Halvorson recruits singer Robert Wyatt to take her Code Girl project to the next level
You don’t get a MacArthur “genius” grant just for thinking big; you get one because your big ideas work extraordinarily well. Mary Halvorson, who was awarded the grant last year, has earned hers by moving from strength to strength. Ever since she began recording in the mid-2000s, she’s projected a strikingly personal voice on the […]
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Guitarist Mary Halvorson makes her presence felt
Guitarist Mary Halvorson, who performs tonight with violist Jessica Pavone at the Washington Park Arts Incubator, has been on a tear lately
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 5/31: Chicago Jazz String Summit, the Chicago Turkish Festival, and One Million Degrees
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, May 31
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Vox Arcana, back from tour, play the Hideout on Wednesday
We’re about to hear a lot from James Falzone, one of the best straight-up clarinet players in Chicago’s jazz and improvised-music community—most other jazz musicians who play clarinet treat it as an accessory to their saxophones, but for Falzone it’s his principal horn. His quartet Klang—with vibist Jason Adasiewicz, bassist Jason Roebke, and drummer Tim […]
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The List, July 23-29, 2009
Critics’ Choices and other notable shows: Novalima and Issa Bagayogo, Jack-O & the Tennessee Tearjerkers, Obits, the Dead Weather, and more
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Instincts louder than words
Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone bring their peculiar, gut-trusting music to the Hideout.