About James Falzone

Multi-faceted clarinetist/composer James Falzone is an acclaimed member of Chicago’s jazz and creative improvised music scene, a veteran contemporary music lecturer and clinician, the longtime Director of Music for Grace Chicago Church and an award-winning composer who has been commissioned by chamber groups and symphony orchestras among other institutions. His incredibly diverse career also includes sideman work in Tim Daisy’s chamber-jazz trio Vox Arcana, the French music ensemble Le Bon Vent and Dutch saxophonist Jorrit Dijkstra’s The Flatlands Collective.

“With the possible exception of John Carter,” writes AllAboutJazz.com’s Jerry D’Souza, “no precedents for his work spring readily to mind.” Critics have called him “an inveterate genre-crosser” (Matthew Lurie, Time Out Chicago), ”the finest improvising clarinetist in Chicago” (Neil Tesser, Examiner.com), and “witty, piquant and eminently listenable” (Michael G. Nastos, AllMusic.com). Cadence‘s Troy Collins adds, “Falzone blends an impressive array of influences into a singular style all his own.”

Recent Discography

KLANG, Other Doors (Allos Documents 006, 2011)

Stompin’ At The Savoy

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Goodman’s Paradox

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James Falzone’s Allos Musica, Lamentations (Allos Documents 005, 2010)

The Second Lament: Persistent

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The Sixth Lament: Attente

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Vox Arcana, Aerial Age (Allos Documents 004, 2010)

Blue Space

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The Silver Fence

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KLANG, Tea Music (Allos Documents 003, 2009)

G.F.O.P.

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Klang

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