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Notes from the Western Edge is a collection of audio profiles of musicians working on the edges of Jazz, New Music, Electronics, and the sonic spaces in between.
Produced in Los Angeles by Richard Paske, NFWE was published monthly from January, 2006 through July, 2007 and now includes 38 profiles, with more to be added on an occasional basis. To listen, use the ISSUE menu or click on a name in the Artist list on the right.
Bennie Maupin
Bennie Maupin is one of the masters whose roots are deep in the streets of Detroit, but whose music has reached around the world. Like most of those masters, he made his move to New York when the time was right, but how he landed in Los Angeles is another story. Along the way he played with the best of the best - Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Lee Morgan, Horace Silver, McCoy Tyner - and a host of others.
Maupin's new CD on the Cryptogramophone label, Penumbra, is dedicated to Lyle (Spud) Murphy, one of many musical mentors in his life. Murphy, who was 96 years old at the time of my first interview with Maupin in early 2005, passed away shortly thereafter.
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Jeff Gauthier
For over 25 years Jeff Gauthier has been one of the prime movers on the Los Angeles creative music scene. Up until the late 1990s he straddled two very distinct musical universes - on the one hand, the orchestral concert hall and film score soundstage and on the other, the edges of improvised jazz. In 1998 he made the decision to concentrate on the latter, not just as a composer and a performer, but as a record label owner and concert presenter as well.
With his Cryptogramophone label and Cryptonight concert series Gauthier continues to present some of the most innovative and challenging improvised music on the planet.
