Ned Rothenberg (born September 15, 1956) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer. He specializes in woodwind instruments, including the alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, and

shakuhachi A is a Japanese and ancient Chinese longitudinal, end-blown flute that is made of bamboo. The bamboo end-blown flute now known as the was developed in Japan in the 16th century and is called the .

(Japanese bamboo flute). He is known for his work in contemporary classical and free improvisation. Rothenberg is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He was a founding member of the woodwind trio New Winds with

J. D. Parran J. D. Parran is an American multi-woodwind player, educator, and composer specializing in jazz and free improvisation. He plays the soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass saxophone, as well as the E-flat clarinet, alto clarinet, bass clarinet, ...

and

Robert Dick Robert Dick (January 1811 – 24 December 1866), was a Scottish geologist and botanist. Life He was born at Tullibody, in Clackmannanshire. His father was an officer of excise in nearby Alloa. At the age of thirteen, after receiving a good ...

. He has performed with

Samm Bennett Samm Bennett is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Samm Bennett is a singer and songwriter, a drummer and percussionist, and a player of string instruments such as the stick dulcimer (sometimes called a dulcitar) and the ...

Paul Dresher Paul Joseph Dresher (born January 8, 1951 in Los Angeles) is an American composer. Dresher received his B.A. in music from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.A. in composition from the University of California, San Diego, where he st ...

Fred Frith Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser. Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock ...

Evan Parker Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944) is a British tenor and soprano saxophone player who plays free improvisation. Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free ja ...

Marc Ribot Marc Ribot (; born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer. His work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, rock, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Wait ...

Elliott Sharp Elliott Sharp (born March 1, 1951) is an American contemporary classical composer, multi-instrumentalist, and performer. A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released ...

, John Zorn,

Yuji Takahashi Yuji or Yu Ji may refer to: * Yuji Naka, is a Japanese video game programmer, designer and producer * Yu Ji (painter), a Qing dynasty painter and calligrapher * Yūji, a common masculine Japanese given name * Consort Yu (Xiang Yu's wife) (虞姬; ...

Sainkho Namtchylak Sainkho Namtchylak ( tyv, Сайын-Хөө Намчылак, russian: Сайнхо Намчылак, born 1957) is a singer originally from Tuva, an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation just north of Mongolia. She is known for her Tuvan ...

, and

Katsuya Yokoyama was a Japanese musician who played the ''shakuhachi'', a traditional vertical bamboo flute. Early life He was born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1934 and studied Kinko-ryu and Azuma styles of music with his father, Rampo Yokoyama, and grandfather, ...

Discography

As leader

* ''Trials of the Argo'' (Lumina, 1981) * ''Portal'' (Lumina, 1983) * ''Trespass'' (Lumina, 1986) * ''Overlays'' (Moers, 1991) * ''Opposites Attract'' with

(New World, 1991) * ''Power Lines'' (New World, 1995) * ''Real and Imagined Time'' (Moers, 1995) * ''Amulet'' with Sainkho (Leo, 1996) * ''Monkey Puzzle'' with

(Leo, 1997) * ''Port of Entry'' (Intuition, 1998) * ''Ghost Stories'' (Tzadik, 2000) * ''Tools of The Trade'' with

Denman Maroney Denman Maroney (born 1949) is a jazz musician who plays what he calls "hyperpiano". Hyperpiano "involves stopping, sliding, bowing, plucking, striking and strumming the strings with copper bars, aluminum bowls, rubber blocks, plastic boxes and ...

, (CIMP, 2001) * ''Intervals'' (Animul, 2002) * ''Decisive Action'' with Satoh Masahiko (BAJ, 2004) * ''En Passant'' with Peter A. Schmid (Creative Works, 2004) * ''Harbinger'' (Animul, 2004) * ''Falling into Place'' with Slava Ganelin (Auris Media, 2006) * ''El Nino'' with Matthias Ziegler, Peter A. Schmid (Creative Works, 2006) * ''Live at Roulette'' with Evan Parker (Animul, 2007) * ''The Fell Clutch'' with Tony Buck,

Stomu Takeishi Stomu Takeishi (born 1964, in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture) is a Japanese experimental and jazz bassist. He is known for playing fretless five-string electric bass guitar and a Klein five-string acoustic bass guitar, often using extended techniques an ...

(Animul, 2007) * ''Inner Diaspora'' (Tzadik, 2007) * ''While You Were Out'' with

Catherine Jauniaux Catherine Jauniaux is a Belgian avant-garde singer. She has been described as a "one-woman-orchestra", a "human sampler", and "one of the best kept secrets in the world of improvised music". Her solo album, ''Fluvial'' (1983) is regarded as one ...

Barre Phillips Barre Phillips (born October 27, 1934, in San Francisco, California, United States) is an American jazz bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he moved to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. Since 1972, he has been based in sout ...

(Kadima Collective, 2009) * ''Free Zone Appleby 2007'' with Evan Parker,

Paolo Angeli Paolo Angeli (born 1970 in Olbia, Sardinia, Italy) is a guitarist, composer, ethnomusicologist and instrument builder associated with traditional Sardinian music, flamenco, jazz, post-rock and experimental music. He plays his own prepared Sar ...

(psi, 2009) * ''Live at DOM'' with Vladimir Volkov (Dom, 2010) * ''Quintet for Clarinet and Strings'' (Tzadik, 2010) * ''Ryu Nashi/No School-New Music for Shakuhachi'' (Tzadik, 2010) * ''World of Odd Harmonics'' (Tzadik, 2012) * ''In Cahoots'' with Mark Feldman,

Sylvie Courvoisier Sylvie Courvoisier (born 30 November 1968) is a composer, pianist and improviser. Career Courvoisier, originally from Lausanne, Switzerland, has lived in Brooklyn, New York for years. She has led several groups over the years, recorded 10 albu ...

, (Clean Feed, 2016) * ''Strings 2'' with Perelman/Maneri/Roberts (Leo, 2018) With New Winds * ''The Cliff'' (Sound Aspects, 1989) * ''Traction'' (Sound Aspects, 1991) * ''Digging It Harder from Afar'' (Les Disques Victo, 1995) * ''Potion'' (Les Disques Victo, 1998) With Semantics * ''Semantics'' (Review, 1986) * ''Bone of Contention'' (SST, 1987)

As sideman

With

Anthony Braxton Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto. Braxton grew up on the South Side of Chica ...

* ''

Creative Orchestra (Köln) 1978 ''Creative Orchestra (Köln) 1978'' is a live album by American composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton. Recorded in Germany in 1978 but not released on the hatART label until 1995, the album features a live concert featuring several of Braxton' ...

'' (hatART, 1995) * ''Trillium R'' (Braxton House, 1999) * ''Orchestra'' (Paris) 1978 (Braxton Bootleg, 2011) With

* ''Venturi Shadows'' (OODiscs, 1991) * ''Worlds of If'' (Leo, 1995) With

Kip Hanrahan Kip Hanrahan (born December 9, 1954) is an American jazz music impresario, record producer and percussionist. Personal life Hanrahan was born in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in the Bronx to an Irish-Jewish family. His father left when he was 6 m ...

* ''Desire Develops an Edge'' (American Clave, 1983) *

, ''Vertical's Currency'' (American Clave, 1985) With

* ''Fluxations'' (New World, 2003) * ''Gaga'' (Nuscope, 2008) * ''Udentity'' (Clean Feed, 2009) With

Steve Nieve Steve Nieve ( "naïve"; born Stephen John Nason, 21 February 1958) is an English musician and composer. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Nieve has been a member of Elvis Costello's backing bands the Attractions, the Imposters and Madnes ...

* ''Mumu'' (Silvertone, 2001) * ''Welcome to the Voice'' (Deutsche Grammophon, 2007) With

* ''

The Moment's Energy ''The Moment's Energy'' is an album by British saxophonist and improvisor Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble recorded at the Lawrence Batley Theatre in 2007 and released on the ECM label.

'' (ECM, 2009) *

, ''Hasselt'' (psi, 2012) *

, ''Seven ElectroAcoustic Septet'' (Les Disques Victo, 2014) With

* ''Music from the Performance Inasmuch As Life Is Borrowed'' (Ultima Vez, 2001) * ''Scelsi Morning'' (Tzadik, 2003) * ''Soundtracks II'' (Tzadik, 2003) With

Adam Rudolph Adam Rudolph (born September 12, 1955) is a jazz composer and percussionist performing in the post-bop and world fusion media. In 1988, Rudolph met jazz musician Yusef Lateef, and the two would go on to collaborate and perform together for t ...

* ''Dream Garden'' (Justin Time, 2008) * ''Can You Imagine...The Sound of a Dream'' (Meta, 2011) With

Steve Swell Steve Swell (born in Newark, New Jersey, December 6, 1954) is an American free jazz trombonist, composer, and educator. Music career Swell studied at Jersey City State Teachers College before moving to New York City in 1975 where he began his m ...

* ''Flurries Warm and Clear'' (CIMP, 2000) * ''Kanreki: Reflection & Renewal'' (Not Two, 2015) With John Zorn * ''The Big Gundown'' (Nonesuch, 1986) * ''Music Romance Volume III: The Gift'' (Tzadik, 2001) * ''Dictee Liber Novus'' (Tzadik, 2010) With others *

Anthony Coleman Anthony Coleman (born August 30, 1955) is an avant-garde jazz pianist. During the 1980s and 1990s he worked with John Zorn on '' Cobra'', ''Kristallnacht'', '' The Big Gundown'', '' Archery'', and '' Spillane'' and helped push modern Jewish music ...

, ''

Lapidation Stoning, or lapidation, is a method of capital punishment where a group throws stones at a person until the subject dies from blunt trauma. It has been attested as a form of punishment for grave misdeeds since ancient times. The Torah and T ...

'' (New World, 2008) *

, ''The Big Off'' (Factory Outlet, 1993) *

Elvis Costello Declan Patrick MacManus Order of the British Empire, OBE (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. He has won multiple awards in his career, including a Grammy Award in ...

, ''The Juliet Letters'' (Rhino, 2006) *

Marty Ehrlich Marty Ehrlich (born May 31, 1955) is a multi-instrumentalist (saxophones, clarinets, flutes) and is considered one of the leading figures in avant-garde jazz. Biography Though born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the portion of Ehrlich's youth spent in ...

, ''The Long View'' (Enja, 2002) *

Nicolas Collins Nicolas Collins (born March 26, 1954 in New York City) is a composer of mostly electronic music, a sound artist and writer. He received his BA and MA from Wesleyan University, and his PhD from the University of East Anglia. Upon graduating from ...

, ''100 of The World's Most Beautiful Melodies'' (Trace Elements, 1989) *

Heiner Goebbels Heiner Goebbels (born 17 August 1952) is a German composer, conductor and professor at Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen and artistic director of the International Festival of the Arts Ruhrtriennale 2012–14. His composition ''Stifters Dinge ...

, Heiner Mueller, ''Der Mann Im Fahrstuhl'' (ECM, 1988) *

Phil Haynes Phil may refer to: * Phil (given name), a shortened version of masculine and feminine names * Phill, a given name also spelled "Phil" * Phil, Kentucky, United States * ''Phil'' (film), a 2019 film * -phil-, a lexical fragment, used as a root ter ...

Herb Robertson 5tet, ''Brooklyn-Berlin'' (CIMP, 2000) *

Jason Hwang Jason Kao Hwang (born 1957) is a Chinese American violinist and composer. He is known for his unconventional and improvisational jazz violin technique as well as his chamber opera ''The Floating Box: A Story in Chinatown'' which premiered in 2001 ...

, ''Unfolding Stone'' (Sound Aspects, 1990) * Sato Michihiro, ''Rodan'' (hat ART, 1989) *

Marisa Monte Marisa de Azevedo Monte (Brazilian Portuguese: /maˈɾizɐ dʒi azeˈvedu ˈmõtʃi/) (born 1 July 1967) is a Brazilian singer, composer, instrumentalist, and producer of Brazilian popular music and samba. As of 2011, she had sold 10 milli ...

, ''Green, Blue, Yellow, Rose and Charcoal'' (Metro Blue, 1994) *

, ''Stepmother City'' (Ponderosa Music & Art, 2000) *

Roy Nathanson Roy Jay Nathanson (born May 17, 1951) is an American saxophonist, composer, bandleader, actor and teacher. He became the leader and principal composer of the Jazz Passengers, a six piece group that he founded with Curtis Fowlkes in 1987. They have ...

, ''Fire at Keaton's Bar & Grill'' (Six Degrees, 2000) * Bob Ostertag, ''Bob Ostertag Plays the Serge 1978–1983'' (Analogue Motions Studio, 2014) *

Bobby Previte Bobby Previte (born July 16, 1951 in Niagara Falls, New York) is a drummer, composer, and bandleader. He earned a degree in economics from the University at Buffalo, where he also studied percussion. He moved to New York City in 1979 and began ...

, ''The 23 Constellations of Joan Miro'' (Tzadik, 2001) *

Liu Sola Liu Sola (Chinese: 刘索拉; pinyin: Liú Suǒlā; b. Beijing, China, 1955) is a Chinese composer, vocalist, music producer, and author. Biography After graduating from the Central Conservatory of Music with a degree in composition, she publi ...

, ''Blues in the East'' (Axiom, 1994) *

, ''Radiolaria'' (Zoar, 2001) * Daniel Zamir, ''Children of Israel'' (Tzadik, 2002)

References

External links

Official site
* Allmusic entry
Interview with Ned Rothenberg
by Sasha Burov (April 23, 2004) from ''Paris Transatlantic'' magazine
Video interview by Derk Richardson for radiOM
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