Alcorn/Chadbourne, Dr. Eugene Chadbourne

Texas Platters

"...a loose intro, followed by several minutes of spaced-out improvisation. "Sugene (Improvisation #2)" and "Albourne (Improvisation #1)" never rise..."

May 23, 2003 Music Review by David Lynch

She Got Rhythm

In the world of rhythm tap, female dancers are a minority, and women who are masters of the form, as Acia Gray is, are merely a fraction of the whole. But with the debut of the Soul to Sole Festival, Gray hopes to give women who tap their due.

"...New York and author of Inside Tap: Technique and Improvisation for Today's Tap Dancer. All have made major contributions..."

May 18, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Painting With Sound

"...out and so do the performers; it's composition from improvisation. If you over-plan, you kill it!"..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Indigo de Souza, Estrella Acosta, and More Crucial Concerts

A little hair of the dog for your post-SXSW listening pleasure

"...is a joyous affair melding adventurous arrangements and sparkling improvisation with traditional Cuban rhythms. The album was nominated for..."

March 22, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

A documentary fitting for the groundbreaking jazz drummer

"...his own and developed a style that fostered free improvisation, and by the Seventies he had even created a..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Future Museum Salvages Un-CAN-ny Performance

How a canceled show (or three) birthed Damo’s Dream tape

"...Damo Suzuki, 70, the Japan-born, Germany-based singer who splattered improvisational and often nonsensical words and sounds on the holy..."

Nov. 9, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Birth of Western Swing, Death of Milton Brown

Chapter excerpt from the new book by ATX music historians Michael Corcoran and Tim Kerr spotlights the debt that the kings of country swing, Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, owed to Texan Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies

"...they started afterwards, when they kept adding instruments and improvisation, came to be called Western swing...."

March 27, 2020 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Amazing Grace

The lost concert movie of the nights that Aretha Franklin recorded her iconic album

"...There is much improvisation and interplay between singer, accompanist, and choir (energetically directed..."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Michael King

SXSW Music Interview: Joe Armon-Jones / Ezra Collective

Avant-garde jazz collective brings genre back to its roots

"...they're the same thing, really," demurs bandleader Femi. "My improvisation is finding different ways to express my need to..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Meditate with Laraaji

Zither virtuoso gets transcendental with Dallas Acid

"...AC: Will there be much improvisation?..."

Sept. 19, 2018 Music Post by Dan Gentile

Thor: Ragnarok

The Marvel Universe's funniest movie to date

"...has said he punched up the dialogue and encouraged improvisation on set; he also voices a sweet, sentient pile..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

La Follia Plays J.S. Bach’s Greatest Chamber Music

Choosing Bach’s top chamber works may be impossible, but the baroque ensemble made a convincing case for five not-easy pieces in this concert

"...The closer spoke to Bach's seemingly supernatural gift for improvisation and embellishment. As the story goes, the 62-year-old composer..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Playback: Armadillo Tales

A review of the best book on Austin’s 1970s music scene since The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock

"..."My commitment to improvisation is always the same: 100 percent," he says. "I..."

April 7, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Tangerine

Indie drama shot with an iPhone provides a riveting take on two transgender BFFs

"...like comic pinballs; the dialogue has the zing of improvisation in real life. Both of the newcomers who play..."

July 24, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Good Eye: Tales From the Beauty Box

Side-eyeing the confines of female film roles

"...How do actresses cope? Tilton says improvisation – which she used to develop dialogue for her..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

The Trip to Italy

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon continues their journeys as a couple of guys attached at the funny bone.

"...it’s a take-no-prisoners contest of wit and will, each improvisation intent on outdoing the other’s, especially when a woman..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Can I Get a Suggestion for Something That Goes "Fhtagn"?

The Hideout Theatre exudes a mass of improvised Lovecraft

"...shimmering air, and – this is the thing about improvisation, of course – they're making it up as they..."

Oct. 11, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

All Over Creation: A Brief History of Laugh Riots in Austin

As April overflows with comedy festivals, an overview of Austin's celebrations of funny

"...that my enfeebled brain can recall – the SouthWest Improvisation Festival, which lasted a couple of years starting in..."

April 13, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM: Improvising the Coming World

A planetary culture is crystallizing

"...cultivate an acute sense of interplay between order and improvisation. They know how improvisation relies on an underlying sense..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Big Range Austin

The festival that packs a year of contemporary dance into two weekends

"...by a local composer, and a music and movement improvisation program, with an ensemble-generated score and framework. (It was..."

June 25, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Big Range Austin

With improvisational movement, the performers work to play – to free up the ways they move

"...Program C, a 45-minute session of movement and music improvisation. "I'm not really interested in the production itself, but..."

June 12, 2009 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

The Bee's Knees

Andrew Bujalski's uncommon process

"...and it was fully scripted, right? Or was there improvisation on set?..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Improv for Evil

'You're a loose cannon, Cochise!'

"...While Austin boasts so many improvisational comedy troupes you probably couldn't count them on 10..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

On the Road, From San Fran to Taipei

Two new film series bebop and globe-hop

"...dismantled tradition by borrowing from bebop's compositional style of improvisation (as well as its drug use). Improvisation, coupled with..."

March 28, 2008 Screens Feature by Raymond Blanton

Every Last Word

Vincent Gallo: The Complete Transcript

"...VG: Well, what most people do in improvisation is they have a music form – whether it's..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Screens Feature by Mark Fagan

De-Spurring the Moment

The making of the 2007 Out of Bounds Improv Festival

"...The thing about improvisation, comedy or otherwise, is that it's done on the..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

McNichol & May: Harking back with style

Bob McNichol & Erika May are among the most literary improvisers in town, each of their spontaneous narratives carried along by the depth of the characters they create

"..."McNichol & May are a Chicago-trained improvisation duo that also happens to be married." So begins..."

June 22, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Bonds of Filth

The boys behind Hot Fuzz dish the dirt

"...But that's mainly how we work. There's very little improvisation on the set mainly because the schedule is so..."

April 20, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Mission: Improvable

Austin's improv community gathers intelligence

"...What is this form of entertainment called improvisation? Is it always comedy, is it sometimes drama, and..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Blank Generation

Amy Sedaris on 'Strangers With Candy'

"...it up, improvise; he takes notes based on my improvisation and goes back to the drawing board. So, it's..."

July 21, 2006 Screens Feature by Steve Birmingham

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