Jessica Pavone (solo) with Ruth Garbus, Okay Embrace at Hampshire College Mixed Nuts Co-op

Avant Music News recently hailed Pavone's inventiveness on her new album In the Action, noting how she "packs a lot of ideas into a short duration and re-thinks the role of her instrument along the way" and adding that "without liner notes, it would likely be impossible to identify the instrument from which these sounds originate." Like her previous solo work, the new album explores the relationship between the instrument -- which she describes as "larger than comfortable" -- and the body.

Pavone has been an active member of the music community in New York City since 2000. She currently leads her own string ensemble, plays with the band JOBS, is in a duo with guitarist Mary Halvorson, and is in Anthony Braxton's Tri-Centric Orchestra...

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Avant Music News recently hailed Pavone's inventiveness on her new album In the Action, noting how she "packs a lot of ideas into a short duration and re-thinks the role of her instrument along the way" and adding that "without liner notes, it would likely be impossible to identify the instrument from which these sounds originate." Like her previous solo work, the new album explores the relationship between the instrument -- which she describes as "larger than comfortable" -- and the body.

Pavone has been an active member of the music community in New York City since 2000. She currently leads her own string ensemble, plays with the band JOBS, is in a duo with guitarist Mary Halvorson, and is in Anthony Braxton's Tri-Centric Orchestra. As an instrumentalist, she has personally worked with and interpreted new music by Anthony Braxton, Elliott Sharp, Glenn Branca, Henry Threadgill, Wadada Leo Smith, Aaron Seigel, John King, Matana Roberts, Matthew Welch, Tristan Perich, Tyondai Braxton, and William Parker.

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