Anthony Coleman
// composer & pianistANTHONY COLEMAN is an avant-garde composer and jazz musician from New York City. Anthony Coleman’s “Sephardic Tinge” (1995), Nathanson and Coleman’s “I Could’ve Been A Drum” (1997), Anthony Coleman’s “The Abysmal Richness Of The Infinite Proximity Of The Same” (1998), Sephardic Tinge’s “Morenica” (1998), “Our Beautiful Garden Is Open” (2002), Anthony Coleman’s “Pushy Blueness” (2006), and “Shmutsige Magnaten: Coleman Plays Gebirtig” (2006) are all available from Tzadik Records. Anthony Coleman’s music essay “That Silence Thing” appears in John Zorn’s “Arcana: Musicians On Music” (2000) available from Granary Books, Inc. He also teaches Contemporary Improvisation, Jazz Studies, and Composition at New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. MySpace: www.myspace.com/antcol8
Websites: www.newenglandconservatory.edu and www.tzadik.com
Photo: Michael Kneffel / MichaelKneffel.de
Interview:
Music brings us in touch with the most palpable and coherent part of abstraction. Music has no choice but to be abstract, and therefore, it brings us in touch with the abstractionist in all of us. Sometimes people use the word “abstract” as a synonym for willfully obscure. But music is like our dreams, our pre-verbal imagistic core. Abstract and real. To communicate in this pre – or post – verbal fashion, but with communication as the goal, this is the miracle. How does music do it? But the fact that it does seems to create an invisible spiritual bond between performer and listener.
“Music is like our dreams, our pre-verbal imagistic core. Abstract and real… it does seems to create an invisible spiritual bond between performer and listener.”
– Anthony Coleman, composer and pianist
