Jessica Pavone

Jessica Pavone is a New York-based violinist, violist and experimental composer. Her jazz-and-classical-inspired avant-garde music combines elements of improvisation and composition.[1][2]

Background

Pavone is a graduate of the Hartt School of Music. While teaching public school in Hartford, Connecticut, she became involved with a community of  improvisers and composers around Wesleyan University and avant-garde jazz composer Anthony Braxton.[1]

In 2001, Pavone released Jessica Pavone & the String Army. A year later she released 27 Epigrams, a collection of short pieces for small ensembles.

Her music has been characterized as “avant-improv.”[3]

Around 2001, Pavone started performing with avant-jazz guitarist (and Anthony Braxton student) Mary Halvorson. The New York Times described her duo work with Halvorson as “intricate song forms met with startling jolts of insight that felt as rooted in experimental rock, folk and chamber music as in any subspecies of jazz.”[4]

She also performs as Dark Tips with Raquel Bell.

Pavone has been part of ensembles led by Anthony Braxton, Henry Threadgill, and Matthew Welch. Pavone has earned grants and commissions from the Aaron Copland Recording Fund, the American Music Center, The Kitchen, MATA, The Jerome Foundation. Her music has been released by Tzadik, Thirsty Ear, Relative Pitch Records, and other labels.[3] Pavone has also performed with cellist Paul de Jong on occasion.[5]

Discography
  • Jessica Pavone & the String Army (2001)
  • 27 Epigrams (2002)
  • Prairies (with Mary Halvorson) (2006)
  • Quotidian (2007)
  • On and Off (with Mary Halvorson) (2007)
  • This Is My Violin (2007)
  • Walking, Sleeping, Breathing (2007)
  • Thin Air (with Mary Halvorson) (2009)
  • Songs of Synastry and Solitude (2009)[6]
  • Departure of Reason (with Mary Halvorson) (2011)
  • Army of Strangers (2011)
  • Hope Dawson Is Missing (2012)[7][8]
  • Survival Tricks (as Normal Love) (2012)
  • Knuckle Under (2014)
  • Silent Spills (2016)
  • Advice from the Underworld (as Dark Tips) (2018)
  • In the Action (2019)
  • Brick and Mortar (2019)

References
  1. "Pavone Brings Her Strings Back Home". The New York Sun. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  2. "Pavone, Jessica". Improvised and Experimental Music. 2013-01-09. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
  3. "Mary Halvorson/Jessica Pavone". fac.umass.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  4. Chinen, Nate. "The Guitarist Mary Halvorson Make Music 'Sort of Based in Jazz'". Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  5. "Best NYC shows (section:Paul de Jong, Jessica Pavone Ensemble)". Village Voice. Village Voice. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  6. "Jessica Pavone: Songs of Synastry and Solitude CD Release Concert – Roulette". roulette.org. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
  7. "DownBeat | Digital Edition | January 2013". www.downbeat.com. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  8. "Jessica Pavone - Hope Dawson is Missing (Tzadik, 2012) ***½". The Free Jazz Collective. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
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