David Grundy
Video
Eye and Ear Control: Watching Albert Ayler
January 2025
David Grundy watches recently unearthed footage of saxophonist Albert Ayler in concert from 1966
Issue 491/492
January 2025
Essay
“New experts in a new world”: at an incubator for Afrodiasporic new music
November 2024
David Grundy attends a week long event in Berlin designed to forward a global avant garde of Black music composers
Issue 489
November 2024
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Issue 487
September 2024
Issue 478
December 2023
Issue 477
November 2023
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Issue 475
September 2023
Essay
A Cry of Anguish: Eight Songs For A Mad King
May 2023
As vocalist Elaine Mitchener prepares to perform Peter Maxwell Davies’s explosive 1969 monodrama at London’s Wigmore Hall, David Grundy details past renditions and speaks with Mitchener about new intersectional perspectives on the piece
Essay
Expanding universe: Wayne Shorter (25 August 1933–2 March 2023)
March 2023
David Grundy pays tribute to the late saxophonist whose uncontainable experimental artistry expanded the realm of mainstream music into the outer limits