DECEMBER 2005

"LIVE WIRE:
PCMM Festival
Crazy, Man"
Phoenix New Times
by Steve Jansen

Can't you hear this beer-drowned bar conversation among audiophiles?

"We should call all the experimental musician cats around town and form a music collective.  Yeah, avant-garde aficionados would really dig it."

Then reality strikes.  "Organizing musicians to do something?  Shitballs!  Want another round?"

A similar experience occurred for Jennifer Rogers and Marvin Scott, the co-founders of the Phoenix Creative Music Movement.  However, they avoided the morning-after hangover and successfully created the PCMM as a synergistic outlet for creative musicians to meet and perform.  Since April, the bimonthly concert series has featured improvised music ranging from free jazz and organic hip-hop to a found-object collage of white noise and a fracas drum act where children's toys were played.  The first PCMM festival will feature six acts over two nights, including Chicago drumming heavyweight and Phoenix native Frank Rosaly, who employs a "deconstruction" solo percussion style to illustrate a free-flowing patchwork of sound.

This music is as far-reaching as can be, but if there is a PCMM guarantee, it's this:  You ain't gonna hear these hip sounds on local popcorn jazz radio stations, dig?