Iqua Colson

AACM pianist & singer give away CD at NYC show

Steve Colson, pianist/composer and band leader, with vocalist Iqua Colson — a couple members of American experimental music‘s cutting edge AACM for some 35 years — give a rare performance quartet Saturday night (Feb 6) at NYC’s Thalia theater in Symphony Space. Everyone who attends gets the Colsons’ new CD, The Untarnished Dream, for free. One-time promotion? Start of a trend? Acceptance of reality?

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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). Of course I'm working on something new. . . Read More…