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Composer Heiner (Brains on Fire) Stadler @ It’s Psychedelic Baby

February 23, 2012 by Howard Mandel

Heiner Stadler is a lesser-known but fascinating New York City-based composer who's stretched the structures and dimensions of jazz with all-star productions including A Tribute to Monk and Bird and Brains on Fire (which I annotated for recent reissue). It's Psycheledic Baby, the online magazine by Klemen Breznikar taglined "discover the unknown" has published an interview with Stadler -- a Polish-born ('42) WWII refugee who heard a Sydney Bechet record when he was 13, got to NYC by boat in his 20s, broke but motivated. He … [Read more...]

02/23/12 5:41 PM | filed under: elsewhere | |

Experimental singer, frankly in need. Who isn’t?

December 20, 2009 by Howard Mandel

Mossa Bildner, an indefatigable vocalist and performance artist, is the subject of today's "The Neediest Cases" column in the New York Times, because having suffered as a freelancer from the economic downturn, she's been facing eviction. "This could happen to anybody," she told the newspaper, and though asking for help "was a strange position to find myself in . . I didn't feel ashamed." … [Read more...]

12/20/09 5:23 PM | filed under: elsewhere, main | |

Howard Mandel

I'm a Chicago-born and New York-based writer, editor, author, arts reporter/producer for radio including NPR, and nascent videographer -- for more than 30 years, a freelance arts journalist working on newspapers, magazines and websites, appearing on tv and radio, teaching at New York University and elsewhere. I'm president of the Jazz Journalists Association; my books are Future Jazz (Oxford U Press, 1999) and Miles Ornette Cecil - Jazz Beyond Jazz (Routledge, 2008). I was general editor of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz and Blues (Flame Tree 2005/Billboard Books 2006) Read More…

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Composer Heiner (Brains on Fire) Stadler @ It’s Psychedelic Baby

02/23/12 5:41 PM | filed under: elsewhere | |

Experimental singer, frankly in need. Who isn’t?

12/20/09 5:23 PM | filed under: elsewhere, main | |

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