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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.
Dave Douglas
Dave Douglas's musical vistas are very, very wide. Before his career as leader of his own groups, he played Haitian music, Latin music, Jewish music, and in street bands in Times Square, not to mention working with both Horace Silver and the Bread and Puppet Theater. These days he's as busy as ever - composing, performing, and recording with electric pianos, chamber ensembles, and much, much more. Stay tuned... Photo: Suzannah P. Kincannon
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Ron McCurdy
Ron McCurdy loves to teach, so much so that he wrote a tune about the emancipation he felt upon returning to teaching from a purely administrative job as head of the Thelonious Monk Institute. Now the chairman of Jazz Studies at USC, McCurdy is helping to shape the musical lives of some very talented students. He also tours with his Langston Hughes Project bringing words, sounds, and images of liberation to audiences across the country.
