James Falzone

Clarinetist, composer, and improviser James Falzone is an
acclaimed member of the international jazz and creative music
scenes, a veteran contemporary music lecturer and clinician, and
an award-winning composer.


Falzone performs throughout North America and Europe, appears
regularly on Downbeat magazine’s Critics’ and Readers’
Polls, and was nominated as the 2011 Clarinetist of the Year by
the Jazz Journalist Association.


He is also a respected educator and scholar and has been on the
faculty of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Deep
Springs College, North Central College, and was a fellow at The
Center for Black Music Research.





At present Falzone is the Dean of Music at Cornish College of the
Arts in Seattle, Washington.





Stephen Anthony Rawson sits down with Falzone at Cornish’s
historic Kerry Hall, where John Cage first began to experiment
with the prepared piano, and where Cage met his life partner,
renowned dancer Merce Cunningham. They talk about Falzone's life
in music, the “crooked line” he’s walked as an artist, bringing
to balance the Already and the Not Yet in music-making,
Wayfaring’s new album, Intermezzo, and a whole lot more.