15 BOOKS THAT REALLY INFLUENCED ME
Since the internet, and especially since becoming a writer and a performer, I’ve realized how many truly great unknown musicians, poets etc. there are. This can be discouraging, but also something of a relief. It's OK never to be on the cover of the Rolling Stone.
I realize I’m not a music critic. I don't have anything to say, just: I’ve heard it and I like it or I don ‘t. The bookmarks here belong to people I like. Categories hang loosely around their shoulders. “Jazz” may mean “Well, she composes in a classical format but she plays mostly in clubs” In fact, those are the people I like most. NOTE I realize there are many greats I've left off the list; some deliberately like personal friends or artists already well known. Feel free to make your own recommendations.
Francisco Guerrero Renaissance composer Ave Maria
Blue Heron Renaissance choir Hodie puer nascitur (Anon)
Alvin Curran Composer Voyage in the Planet of Art
Christian Wolff Composer on Roulette TV
Yitzhak Yedid Composer Oud Bass Piano Trio
Carter Burwell Film score composer Moloch
Teiji Ito Film score composer Meshes of the Afternoon
Max Richter Film score composer On the Nature of Daylight
Chris Gestrin Jazz composer After the City Has Gone: Quiet
Pete M Wyer Jazz composer Stories from the City at Night
Elise Caron Singer J'aime le vent
Franziska Bauman Singer Voices and Tides
Eve Egoyan Pianist Surface Tension
Zoe Keating Cellist Legions (War)
Alessandra Celletti Pianist Satie, Shooting Stars, 100 Dreams
Myra Melford Jazz Pianist, Composer Spark w/Marty Ehrlich
Ellery Eskelin Jazz saxophone One Great Day
Satoko Fujii Jazz pianist Live/Cafe Metropole
Stanley Jordan Jazz guitarist Street Talk
Amir el Saffar Trumpet, santur player Within/Between
Carla Bozulich/Evangelista Jazz vocalist Pissing
Hilary Kole Jazz vocalist Blackberry Winter
Maria Pia de Vito Jazz Vocalist At a photo shoot
Norma Winstone Jazz vocalist Distance
Sunny Kim Jazz vocalist Eternal Life
Youn Sun Nah Jazz vocalist Shenandoah
Annika Line Trost Soft Rock Ducky
Nightwish Hard Rock I Wish I Had an Angel
Lhasa de Sela International singer Con toda palabra
Guy Debord,Vaneigem et al French songwriters Makhnovtchina, La vie s'écoule...
Unni Løvlid Norwegian singer Vita clips
Horacio Guarany Argentine Singer Si se calla el cantor
Gotan New tango Gloria, Queremos paz
Sabreena da Witch Palestinian rapper Where no one is
Mounira Mitchala Chadian singer RFI Concert
Jane Korman Performance artist Dancing Auschwitz
Les 7 doigts de la main New circus from La vie
Dance Film Project Dance video Haptic Deviation
Matt Harding Dance video Where the Hell is Matt
Souleymane Diamanka Spoken word Papillon en papier
Abd elMalik Nounouhi Calligrapher Samples
