much easier to generate interest in what is heretofore unknown. So here we have Gretchen Langheld and her (relatively) large ensemble from the East Village playing and melange-ing a wide range of source material, from the usual jazz and rock foundations to all kinds of less formal new music conventions. She has in effect
created a new and very listenable music for new music big band, kind of like the Ordinaires, who are also from her neighborhood. How about the “East Village Multi-Sourced New Music Big Band Movement?”