About Paul Austerlitz
Reed player, composer, and ethnomusicologist, Paul Austerlitz combines his background as an ethnomusicologist specializing in Afro-Caribbean music with his creative work as a jazz musician. As a composer, Austerlitz weds his backgrounds in jazz and ethnomusicology, producing works that incorporate the music that he researches. He has been especially active in blending Latin and Caribbean music from the Dominican Republic and elsewhere with free forms of jazz.
In addition to his compositions and musical performances based in the traditional music of the island, Paul has contributed to the Criollo Dominican Music Movement with his field research in the Dominican Republic and Haiti and his publications. His books, "Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity", and "Jazz Consciousness" are part of his contribution to the contemporaneous re-evaluation of the Criollo Dominican identity outside and inside the artistic movement.
The concert was captured with ambient club light.
Credits
Video Director and Editor
Willian Aleman
Camera
Vivian Martínez
W. Aleman
Stereo Sound Recording
W. Aleman
Paul Austerlitz , bass clarinet
Babatunde Lea, drum set
Benito Gónzalez, piano
Eric Wheeler, bass