#NowPlaying Susan Alcorn / Joe McPhee / Ken Vandermark - Invitation to a Dream

Loving this first trio recording of three remarkable players, including Susan Alcorn who died earlier this year. The album title is so fitting: this is a bright portal into an otherworldly, spiritual space, all beautifully recorded.

“We lovingly dedicate this album to refugees, immigrants, and the persecuted wherever they may be.” YES!

#SusanAlcorn #JoeMcPhee #KenVandermark #AstralSpirits

https://alcornmcpheevandermark.bandcamp.com/album/invitation-to-a-dream

Invitation To A Dream, by Alcorn / McPhee / Vandermark

7 track album

Alcorn / McPhee / Vandermark

What a sad loss to hear of the sudden passing of Susan Alcorn, a musician of great sensitivity and kindness matched only by her humility. I was lucky enough to play with her on several occasions, particularly during a trio tour with Sean Meehan. The road trips were an opportunity to learn a lot about the pedal steel guitar and how she expanded its possibilities. A beautiful person has left...

#susanalcorn #pedalsteelguitar #improvisedmusic #freeimprovisation

Quelle tristesse que la disparition soudaine de Susan Alcorn, une musicienne d’une grande sensibilité doublée d’une gentillesse qui n’avait d’égale que son humilité. J’ai eu la chance de jouer avec elle à plusieurs reprises et en particulier au cours d’une tournée en trio avec Sean Meehan. Les voyages en voiture ont été une occasion d’apprendre beaucoup sur la pedal steel guitar et sur la manière dont elle a étendu ses possibilités. Une bien belle personne est partie… #susanalcorn

Sending kind energies to those I know who were close to Susan Alcorn,whose music was a source of deep and wondrous inspiration to me....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZOD5KXYOY8

#SusanAlcorn

O Sacrum Convivium - Susan Alcorn

YouTube

Tonight: avant garde solo pedal steel in an art gallery on a frigid Tuesday eve? Sign me up! Actually Zürcher Gallery was surprisingly packed for Susan Alcorn, all treated to some eyes-closed untethered legato meditations. A perfect balm for the day.

#nycfreaks #livemusic #nyc #pedalsteel #susanalcorn

Susan Alcorn & George Burt – A&B
#Jazz #experimental #freeimprov #freeimprovisation #freejazz #georgeburt #guitar #pedalsteel #susanalcorn #UK
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https://iorramrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-b
A&B, by Susan Alcorn & George Burt

7 track album

Iorram Records
Unicornio Azul, by Susan Alcorn

from the album Sur

Susan Alcorn
New #review today: "With Canto, #SusanAlcorn explores another facet of music that is not generally associated with pedal steel guitar. Pedernal (2020) was exploratory jazz with an elite crew of American improvisers, and now she’s working with Septeto del Sur, a group she assembled in Chile consisting of musicians expanding on their own country’s local styles..." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/susan-alcorn-septeto-del-sur-canto-2.html
Reviews | Susan Alcorn / Septeto del Sur - Canto

Exposé Online

“The Pinochet dictatorship changed everything, and I think the country is still emotionally bruised from it. People relate to these songs because some of the lyrics tear your heart up. They are so sad. But, like the Blues, there is also a joyousness to it, and maybe some kind of release.“- Susan Alcorn

Album, ‘Canto’, out now on Relative Pitch Records.

https://postgenre.org/mourning-hope-susan-alcorn/

#susanalcorn #pedalsteel #steelguitar #nuevacancion #nuevacancionchilena #jazz #chile #music

Mourning and Hope: A Conversation with Susan Alcorn - PostGenre

For centuries, music has served as an empowering call for the oppressed and alienated. The origins of Blues, jazz, and rock all have their core in the subjugation of Black America. In Nazi Germany, youths would covertly undermine the Reich by playing verboten swing music in hidden corners of their community. Fela Kuti used Afrobeat as

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