Michael Art Moss

Michael Moss's Accidental Orchestra: Helix

by Troy Dostert
June 4, 2018

A longtime contributor to the New York jazz scene whose roots go back to Sam Rivers's loft era of the 1970s, clarinetist and composer Michael Moss has typically worked in a small-group context, especially via his most well-known ensembles, Four Rivers and the New York Free Quartet. But on Helix, he's got more ambitious goals in mind for his 22-member Accidental Orchestra, both in terms of the scope of the band and the metaphysical concept at its core: namely, “an ...