Flaherty/ Kelley/ Voigt/ Cook

Flaherty/ Kelley/ Voigt/ Cook: The Ilya Tree

by Derek Taylor
July 1, 2001

Creative improvised music is alive with provincial nooks and crannies, geographical pockets where the music thrives with relative independence from its more visible urban epicenters. These regional locales are in fact one of the primary channels by which the tradition is propagated and expanded upon. Paul Flaherty is an acknowledged patriarch of one such province- up-state Massachusetts. Along drummer Randall Colbourne, a frequent ally, and partner in the jointly run Zaabway label Flaherty has fostered and sustained a scene where ...