Asian Improv Records
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Homepage of the largest record label for Asian jazz |
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Tatsu Aoki |
Official Website |
Features information on touring, recording,
and up-to-date happenings. |
Tatsu Aoki: A
Chicago Living Industry |
Interview with Aoki from
Jazz Review |
Bibliographic and Discography Information |
Courtesy of
Asian Improv |
More Discography |
Courtesy of
Southport Records |
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 |
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. |
Crusin' J Town - Documentary Film |
An in-depth look at the 1970 release featuring Hiroshima. |
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. |
Article on
Fred Ho |
Courtesy of Speak Out! Institute for Democratic
Education and Culture |
Brooklyn Sax Quartet |
Group co-founded by David Bindman and Fred Ho |
"Fred Ho: New Music Performer and
Composer" |
Article on Ho's emergence into the music scene. |
"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. |
"An Interview with Revolutionary Chinese-American Composer and Saxophonist:
Fred Ho" |
. from
Sounds Celebrating Resistance, Issue 3, 1997 |
"Fred
Ho Interview" |
by Christopher Mitchell, Minneapolis-Field
Digest, Vol. 11 # 128, Monday 16 April 2001. |
Fred Ho Collection on
Asian American Politics and Culture |
Courtesy of the University of Connecticut |
�Rebel Sax: Fred Ho.�
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Video clips
and music files at CVideo.com |
Rebel
Yellow |
by Terry Hong,
A Magazine, March/April 1998. Posted on Model Minority: A Guide to
Asian American Empowerment |
Voice of the Dragon: A Martial
Arts Epic |
Includes sound files as well as a brief description of the show. |
A Hybrid �Dragon� Breathes Fire |
by
Marcus Crowder, Sacramento Bee, Feb. 9 2001 |
Once Upon a Time in Chinese
America |
CD
at
Innova Records |
CD
review |
Once Upon a Time in Chinese America, at
Sonoloco Record Reviews |
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 |
"Atonal
Energy Music" |
Article by
Brian
Phillips, May 2001 for Furious |
"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 |
"Take
the Next Step: Requiem for Glenn Horiuchi" |
by Minoru
Kanda. Asian American Movement Ezine, August 9, 2001; in 3 parts. |
"Remembering
Glenn" |
by Loren Kajikawa and Oliver Wang. LA Weekly
June 16-22, 2000. |
"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. |
Kenzo�s Vision |
Recording:
commentary by
Cathy Austin, KZSU Stanford, 1996 |
Hilltop View |
CD sound
samples |
Next Step |
extract from CD liner notes by Jon Jang |
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. |
"Sound
Bombing: Vijay Iyer and the Politics of Jazz" |
by Oliver Wang. Hardboiled 1.4, May 1998 |
"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. |
Guide to
Francis Wong |
All Music Guide -
CDs, reviews, and more. |
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