Blaise Siwula is a New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 based free jazz

Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...

 musician and curator.

Blaise Siwula was born in Detroit, Michigan, on 02/19/1950. He moved to New York City in 1989 with his family, hoping to enter the music scene there. He has collaborated on recordings with many artists, including Cecil Taylor

Cecil Taylor

Cecil Percival Taylor is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and...

. He also curates the weekly C.O.M.A. music event as ABC No Rio

ABC No Rio

ABC No Rio is a social center located at 156 Rivington Street on New York City's Lower East Side that was founded in 1980. It features a gallery space, a zine library, a darkroom, a silkscreening studio, and public computer lab...

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Discography

• Projection: Zero
• Big Hearts
• The Slam Trio: In The Stillhouse
• Tandem Rivers (with Adam Lane)
• Joseph Scianni: One Eyed Jack
• Badlands
• Dialing Privileges
• Sound Scapes