Press Information

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Press clippings about Jon Gibson:

"Jon Gibson is a fantastic performer on flute, clarinet and soprano saxophone as well as a very interesting composer."
Keith Potter, Classical Music Weekly.

"Jon Gibson's soprano sax solo was gorgeous."
Ira Kaplan, The Soho Weekly News.

"...Coltrane revived the straight soprano sax (whose only previous master in jazz had been Sidney Bechet), and in so doing led a generation of young musicians, from Wayne Shorter to Keith Jarrett to Jon Gibson, to explore the instrument."
Edward Strickland, Atlantic Monthly.

"Gibson played some of his own compositions that demonstrate his remarkable technical aplomb."
Daniel Webster, The Philadelphia Enquirer

"Jon Gibson performed an exquisite, stark sax solo, EXTENSIONS. More, I want more."
Merle Ginsberg, Alive Magazine.

"Gibson's interesting mix of calculation and improvisation produces music which is neither boring nor purely hypnotic."
Nicholas Kenyon, London Financial Times

"Mr. Gibson, who has been a member of The Philip Glass Ensemble since its beginnings, demonstrated again that his musical approach and sense of discipline are wholly his own."
Robert Palmer, The New York Times.

"There was some exquisite phrasing and tonal shading from Jon Gibson...in FACADES, one of (Glass's) most enchanting pieces."
Tim Smith, News/Sun Sentinel.

"Gibson, the agile flutist/saxophonist of Glass's razor-sharp ensemble, is an imppressive commposer in his own right, with an elegant melodic imagination"
Kyle Gann, Village Voice

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F. Heubach, ed.: Interfunktionen 10 (Cologne, 1972) [scores, drawings].
T. Johnson: "Getting Fogbound in Sound," Village Voice (December 20, 1973).
W. Sharp: "The Phil Glass Ensemble" Avalanche December, 1974.
Akademie der Kunste, Berliner Festwochen: Soho: Downtown Manhattan (1976, catalogue)
D. Reck: Music of the Whole Earth (New York, 1977, Reissued 1997)
R. Kostelanetz, ed.: Seventh Assembling (New York, 1977)
R. F. Crone: Numerals 1924-1977 (1977, Yale, Dartmouth, Castelli galleries)
R. Palmer: "Science Inspires Soho Avant-Garde Composers," New York Times (31 July 1977)
R. Teitelbaum: "Less and Less," Soho News (26 March 1980)
R. Johnson, ed.: Scores, an Anthology of New Music (New York 1981)
A. Pomarede: "Jon Gibson, paysage sonore," Art Present, No. 9 (1981), 51
R. E. Bandt: Models and Processes in Repetitive Music, 1960-1983 (1983, Phd. thesis, Monash U., Melbourne)
R. Donnini: "The Visualization of Music Symmetry and Asymmetry" International Journal of Computers & Mathematics, 1986.
T Johnson: The Voice of New Music New York City 1972-1982 (1989)
D. Suzuki: Minimal Music: Its Evolution As Seen in the Works of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley and La Monte Young, and its Relation to the Visual Arts (1991, Phd. thesis USC, CA.)
E. Strickland: Minimalism: Origins (Bloomington, 1993)
W. Duckworth: Talking Music (1995 Schirmer)
D. Goode Ed.: The Frog Peak Rock Music Book (1995)
B. G. Tyranny: All Music Guide 3rd Edition (Miller Freeman, 1997)
R. Kostelanetz, ed.: Writings on Glass (1997, Schirmer)
K. Gann: American Music in the Twentieth Century (1997, Schimer)
K. Potter: Four Musical Minimalists (2000, Cambridge University Press)

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