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Asian Improv Records
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Homepage of the largest record label for Asian jazz |
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Tatsu Aoki |
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Official Website |
Features information on touring, recording,
and up-to-date happenings. |
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Tatsu Aoki: A
Chicago Living Industry |
Interview with Aoki from
Jazz Review |
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Bibliographic and Discography Information |
Courtesy of
Asian Improv |
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More Discography |
Courtesy of
Southport Records |
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Artist Profile |
Profile on
Center stage Chicago
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The Miyumi
Project |
Record review courtesy of All About
Jazz |
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Asian American
Orchestra
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Courtesy of Asian
Improv |
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Bibliography |
Courtesy of the Univ. of California Irvine --
Distinguished Fellows |
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Hiroshima
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Features sound clips, history, and much more on this
legendary ensemble. |
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Crusin' J Town - Documentary Film |
An in-depth look at the 1970 release featuring Hiroshima. |
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Hiroshima Mon Amour |
Article courtesy of
Model Minority |
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Asian Future
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Artist
Homepage |
World Music-fusion band formed in California featuring many
Asian performers. |
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Fred Ho
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Big Red Media, Inc.
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Fred Ho's international multimedia production
company. |
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Article on
Fred Ho |
Courtesy of Speak Out! Institute for Democratic
Education and Culture |
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Brooklyn Sax Quartet |
Group co-founded by David Bindman and Fred Ho |
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"Fred Ho: New Music Performer and
Composer" |
Article on Ho's emergence into the music scene. |
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"Fred
Ho: We Refuse to be Used and Abused"
"Fred Ho's
Activism" |
by Peter Madsen. Interview on
All About Jazz, March 2002
Article in National, a Minneapolis based media outlet, Spring 2001. |
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"An Interview with Revolutionary Chinese-American Composer and Saxophonist:
Fred Ho" |
. from
Sounds Celebrating Resistance, Issue 3, 1997 |
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"Fred
Ho Interview" |
by Christopher Mitchell, Minneapolis-Field
Digest, Vol. 11 # 128, Monday 16 April 2001. |
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Fred Ho Collection on
Asian American Politics and Culture |
Courtesy of the University of Connecticut |
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“Rebel Sax: Fred Ho.”
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Video clips
and music files at CVideo.com |
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Rebel
Yellow |
by Terry Hong,
A Magazine, March/April 1998. Posted on Model Minority: A Guide to
Asian American Empowerment |
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Voice of the Dragon: A Martial
Arts Epic |
Includes sound files as well as a brief description of the show. |
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A Hybrid ‘Dragon’ Breathes Fire |
by
Marcus Crowder, Sacramento Bee, Feb. 9 2001 |
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Once Upon a Time in Chinese
America |
CD
at
Innova Records |
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CD
review |
Once Upon a Time in Chinese America, at
Sonoloco Record Reviews |
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Turn Pain into Power |
CD with
commentary by
Cathy Austin, KZSU Stanford, 1991 |
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Glenn Horiuchi
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Artist
Profile
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Courtesy of Asian
Improv |
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"Atonal
Energy Music" |
Article by
Brian
Phillips, May 2001 for Furious |
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"Glenn Horiuchi
Tribute" |
by Ismael Wadada Leo Smith, 2001. Includes
tribute, bio,
discography, photo album, and video of Glenn’s piano solo on Wadada Leo
Smith’s “N’Da Kulture,” 1995 |
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"Take
the Next Step: Requiem for Glenn Horiuchi" |
by Minoru
Kanda. Asian American Movement Ezine, August 9, 2001; in 3 parts. |
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"Remembering
Glenn" |
by Loren Kajikawa and Oliver Wang. LA Weekly
June 16-22, 2000. |
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"Lilian
Nakano and Glenn Horiuchi, Japanese Shamisen Player and Jazz Musician" |
Article with sound clips.On “Sound Traditions:
Profiles of World Musicians in Southern California” created by Public
Corporation for the Arts, Long Beach, California, on Alliance for California
Traditional Arts website. |
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Kenzo’s Vision |
Recording:
commentary by
Cathy Austin, KZSU Stanford, 1996 |
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Hilltop View |
CD sound
samples |
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Next Step |
extract from CD liner notes by Jon Jang |
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Dew Drop |
review from
TUBA Journal, vol. 27, no. 3, June 2000 |
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Vijay Iyer
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Vijay Iyer, at Red Giant Records |
Lots of goodies at this site: Includes press
release on new CD Panoptic Modes, as well as links to liner notes,
press writeups, Vijay’s writings on cognitive science (including his entire
doctoral dissertation), and links to mp3 files. |
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"Sound
Bombing: Vijay Iyer and the Politics of Jazz" |
by Oliver Wang. Hardboiled 1.4, May 1998 |
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"Art and the Brain" |
Radio Interview on Studio 360, WNYC, New York.
Nov. 23, 2002. |
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Jon Jang
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"Jazz’s
Changing of the (Avant) Garde" |
by Bill
Shoemaker, The American Prospect, Feb. 28, 2000. Posted on Model
Minority: A Guide to Asian American Empowerment. |
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Francis Wong
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Alliance of Emerging
Creative Artists |
Founded by Wong,
this site includes many pieces of information on Wong's illuminating career.
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Artist Profile |
Courtesy of Bay Area
Improvisors. |
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Guide to
Francis Wong |
All Music Guide -
CDs, reviews, and more. |
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