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I'll be in Rome January through mid-March, as a Visiting Artist at the Amercian Academy in Rome.  What a gift to be able to focus on music in such an inspiring setting! 

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Reed Basket had a marathon recording session with Marc Urselli at East Side Sound in May.  Look for our new recording in Spring 2025.  You can hear a few of the tracks on this page in Sounds.  

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The new 16 Tons CDS, Songs from the Alan Lomax Collection, was reviewed on NPR's Fresh Air.   Listen here, and check out other press the CD as been getting.  

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16 Tons peformed live on WNYC's Soundcheck! Listen to the band performing Grey Goose, House Carpenter, and Knock John Booker, and hear Andy and John Schaefer discussing the origins of the band, Alan Lomax, and our folk song legacy.

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Tom Hull chose Act Necessary as one of the Best Albums of 2014!

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Read what the jazz press is saying about Act Necesssary here.

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Andy Biskin's Goldberg's Variations had a sold-out run as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's 2013 Next Wave Festival on October 17–19. In this piece, with music and animation by Andy Biskin, cartoons of Rube Goldberg come to life in a series of droll black-and-white animations based on Goldberg’s original illustrated designs. Performed by an all-star sextet featuring Biskin on clarinet, the music channels early jazz, vaudeville, and Looney Tunes-style mayhem to add tongue-in-cheek drama to these masterstrokes of ingenuity and wit.

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