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Nels Cline (born in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
 in 1956) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 guitarist
Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres....
 and composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
, currently the lead guitarist of alternative rock band Wilco
Wilco

Wilco is an American Rock music band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure....
.

e began to play guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
 at age 12 when his twin brother, Alex Cline
Alex Cline

Alex Cline is an American Jazz drumming.Cline began playing drums with his twin brother, guitarist Nels Cline, at age 11. Their first combo was called Homogenized Goo and included David Hirschman on guitar....
 took up the drums
Drum kit

A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
. The brothers graduated from University High School (Los Angeles, California).

Cline is known for his improvisational work and for the diversity of his musical projects, as well as his use of effects pedal
Effects pedal

An effects pedal is an electronic effects unit housed in a small metal or plastic chassis used by musicians, usually electric guitar players, to modify their instrument sound....
s and looping
Music loop

In electronic music, a loop is a sampling which is repeated. Loops may be repeated through the use of tape loops, delay effects, cutting between two record players, sampling , a Sampler or with the aid of Computer Based Looping Software....
 devices which give his music a distinct sound.






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Nels Cline (born in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
 in 1956) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 guitarist
Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres....
 and composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
, currently the lead guitarist of alternative rock band Wilco
Wilco

Wilco is an American Rock music band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure....
.

Career

Cline began to play guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
 at age 12 when his twin brother, Alex Cline
Alex Cline

Alex Cline is an American Jazz drumming.Cline began playing drums with his twin brother, guitarist Nels Cline, at age 11. Their first combo was called Homogenized Goo and included David Hirschman on guitar....
 took up the drums
Drum kit

A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
. The brothers graduated from University High School (Los Angeles, California).

Cline is known for his improvisational work and for the diversity of his musical projects, as well as his use of effects pedal
Effects pedal

An effects pedal is an electronic effects unit housed in a small metal or plastic chassis used by musicians, usually electric guitar players, to modify their instrument sound....
s and looping
Music loop

In electronic music, a loop is a sampling which is repeated. Loops may be repeated through the use of tape loops, delay effects, cutting between two record players, sampling , a Sampler or with the aid of Computer Based Looping Software....
 devices which give his music a distinct sound. He has played with jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 musicians Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden

Charles Edward Haden is an American jazz musician. He is a double bassist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman....
, Gregg Bendian
Gregg Bendian

Gregg Bendian is a jazz percussionist and composer, primarily a vibraphonist. He was born on July 13 1963 in Englewood, New Jersey.Bendian studied under Noel DaCosta....
, Wadada Leo Smith
Wadada Leo Smith

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith is a trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation. He started out playing drums, mellophone, and French horn before he settled on the trumpet....
, Tim Berne
Tim Berne

Tim Berne is an United States jazz saxophone player and composer.Though Berne was a music fan, he had no interest in playing a musical instrument until he was in college, when he purchased an alto saxophone....
, Vinny Golia
Vinny Golia

Vinny Golia is an United States composer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in woodwind instruments. He performs in the genres of contemporary classical music, jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation....
 and the late bassist Eric Von Essen
Eric Von Essen

Eric Von Essen was an American jazz bassist, pianist, and composer active on the West Coast jazz scene of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.Von Essen played in the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra in 1978, where he met Jeff Gauthier and began working with him....
, a longtime musical companion in the L.A. jazz group Quartet Music.

Cline has also performed and recorded with punk rock
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
 hero Mike Watt
Mike Watt

Michael David Watt is an American bass guitarist, singer and songwriter.He is best-known for co-founding the rock bands The Minutemen and fIREHOSE; , he is also the bassist for the reunited The Stooges and a member of the art rock/jazz/Punk rock/improvisation group Banyan as well as many other post-Minutemen projects....
 in his touring bands The Crew of the Flying Saucer
The Crew of the Flying Saucer

The Crew Of The Flying Saucer was former The Minutemen /FIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt's second touring band, formed to continue touring behind his first solo album, 1995's Ball-Hog or Tugboat?....
 and The Black Gang
The Black Gang

The Black Gang was the trio Mike Watt formed in 1997 to record and tour behind his second solo album, Contemplating The Engine Room . Of all of the "project" bands that he has formed since the disbanding of fIREHOSE in 1994, The Black Gang has gone through the most permutations of any of Watt's backing groups....
, as well as with members of Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley ....
 and country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 legend Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson is an United States country music singer-songwriter author, poet and actor. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains Cultural icon, especially in American popular culture....
, and in the jazz/punk/improv band Banyan
Banyan (band)

Banyan is an art rock band with heavy jazz and Punk rock influence, based in Los Angeles, California, California.The leader and co-founder is Stephen Perkins, who first played drums for Jane's Addiction , and then for Porno for Pyros....
 with Watt and ex-Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. For most of its career, the band was composed of vocalist Perry Farrell, bassist Eric Avery, guitarist Dave Navarro, and drummer Stephen Perkins....
 drummer Stephen Perkins
Stephen Perkins

Stephen Andrew Perkins is an United States musician and songwriter. A drummer and percussion instrument, he currently plays with Jane's Addiction....
. He frequently participates in jazz projects with his twin brother, Alex, however their first actual duo together was in Culver City, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, during their 50th birthday
Birthday

Birthday is the name given to the date of the anniversary of the day of a person's birth. People in many cultures celebrate this anniversary. In some languages, the word for birthday literally translates as "anniversary"....
 show.

Nels's first appearance on an album was on Vinny Golia's 1978 record, Openhearted, and his first work as a bandleader
Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....
 was 1988's Angelica. In the late 1980s, Cline formed the Nels Cline Trio
Nels Cline Trio

The Nels Cline Trio were a group of free jazz musicians active in Santa Monica, California in the 1990s, led by Nels Cline....
, which featured his guitar playing complemented by Mark London Sims at bass
Bass (instrument)

Bass refers to a variety of musical instruments that can be collectively regarded as bass instruments since they produce tones that are in the bass range ....
 and Michael Preussner at drum
Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion instrument group, technically classified as a membranophone.. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement such as a drumstick, to produce sound....
s. The trio released several 7 inch demos
Demo (music)

A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. A demo is a way for musicians to approximate their ideas on Magnetic tape or compact disc, and provide an example of those ideas to record labels, Record producers or other artists....
 and one album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
, before replacing Sims with Bob Mair at bass. This new trio released three albums before splitting up, featuring some of Cline's most melodic
Melody

In music, a melody , also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single entity....
 works, before he ventured into a freer and more minimalist
Minimalist music

Minimalist music is an originally American genre of experimental music or Downtown music named in the 1960s based mostly in consonance and dissonance, steady pulse , stasis and slow transformation, and often reiteration of musical phrase or smaller units such as Figure , Motif , and Cell ....
 territory in the decade to come. Shortly before the end of the trio, Nels recorded two albums, In-Store, and Pillow Wand, with Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley ....
 frontman and guitarist, Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore

Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running Ecstatic Peace! records....
.

Nels was also a member of the Geraldine Fibbers
Geraldine Fibbers

The Geraldine Fibbers were an Alternative country band founded in 1994 by Carla Bozulich. Initially, band members included Bozulich, Daniel Keenan, Jessy Greene, William Tutton and Kevin Fitzgerald....
 with then-partner Carla Bozulich
Carla Bozulich

Carla Bozulich is an American musician based in Los Angeles, known for her work as the lead singer of Geraldine Fibbers and as a founding member of Ethyl Meatplow....
.

In 1999, Cline paired up with jazz drummer
Drummer

A drummer is a musician who plays a drum or drums, particularly a drum kit , marching percussion or hand drums. The term percussionist applies to a musician performing on any percussion instrument, but usually refers to one who plays Classical music or Latin percussion....
 Gregg Bendian
Gregg Bendian

Gregg Bendian is a jazz percussionist and composer, primarily a vibraphonist. He was born on July 13 1963 in Englewood, New Jersey.Bendian studied under Noel DaCosta....
 to record a modern rendition of John Coltrane
John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
's 1967 album, Interstellar Space
Interstellar space

Interstellar space may mean:* In astronomy: all the space within a galaxy not occupied by star or their planetary systems. The interstellar medium resides ? by definition ? in interstellar space....
. On Interstellar Space Revisited: The Music of John Coltrane, Bendian and Cline reinterpret Coltrane's piece using their own distinctive approaches. He also participated in ROVA
Rova Saxophone Quartet

The Rova Saxophone Quartet is a San Francisco-based saxophone quartet formed in October 1977 at the same time as their "less adventurous" but better known colleagues the World Saxophone Quartet....
's Electric Ascension (2005), a performance of Coltrane's landmark large-ensemble recording Ascension (1965).

Cline's current outfit is the improv/free jazz ensemble The Nels Cline Singers, with which he has recorded three albums, Instrumentals, The Giant Pin and Draw Breath, his most recent work as a leader. The Nels Cline Singers are currently signed with Cryptogramophone Records
Cryptogramophone Records

Cryptogramophone Records is a Los Angeles-based jazz record label which was formed in 1998 by violinist Jeff Gauthier to document the music of his late friend and musical companion, bassist Eric von Essen....
.

Another important project of Cline's has been the Acoustic Guitar Trio, a free-improvisation group with Jim McAuley and the late Rod Poole that specialized in microtonal improvisation.

Cline has performed on over 100 albums in the jazz, pop, rock, country
Country

Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country is also a term used to refer to rural areas....
, and experimental pop music
Experimental pop music

Experimental pop music or avant-garde pop music is any type of pop music which experimental music with the basic elements of the genre, and/or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or Definition of music....
 genres. He continues to expand his audience as a member of the Grammy-winning rock band Wilco
Wilco

Wilco is an American Rock music band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure....
, which he joined in early 2004. He was later featured in the cover story of Guitar Player Magazine for his newfound collaboration with the band.

In February, 2007, Cline was chosen by Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J....
 Magazine as one of the Top 20 New Guitar Gods given the title "The Avant Romantic".

Nels Cline appears on Wilco's 2007 album, Sky Blue Sky
Sky Blue Sky

Sky Blue Sky is the sixth studio album by Chicago rock music band Wilco, released on May 15, 2007 by Nonesuch Records. Originally announced on January 17, 2007 at a show in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee, it was the band's first studio album with guitarist Nels Cline and multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone....
, as well as the live album "Kicking Television: Live in Chicago
Kicking Television: Live in Chicago

Kicking Television: Live in Chicago is a live album by Chicago alternative rock band Wilco, released on November 15, 2005 by Nonesuch Records....
," and is currently touring with the band.

Currently, Nels is using the Schroeder DB7 red amplifier built for him by Tim Schroeder of Schroeder Guitar & Amp Repair in Chicago, IL.

Selected discography

  • Elegies (1980) (w. Eric Von Essen
    Eric Von Essen

    Eric Von Essen was an American jazz bassist, pianist, and composer active on the West Coast jazz scene of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.Von Essen played in the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra in 1978, where he met Jeff Gauthier and began working with him....
    )
  • Quartet Music (1981) (w. Quartet Music)
  • Ocean Park (1984) (w. Quartet Music)
  • Window on the Lake (1986) (w. Quartet Music)
  • Angelica (1988)
  • Summer Night (1989) (w. Quartet Music)
  • Silencer (1992) (w. Nels Cline Trio
    Nels Cline Trio

    The Nels Cline Trio were a group of free jazz musicians active in Santa Monica, California in the 1990s, led by Nels Cline....
    )
  • Ball-hog or Tugboat? (1995) (w. Mike Watt
    Mike Watt

    Michael David Watt is an American bass guitarist, singer and songwriter.He is best-known for co-founding the rock bands The Minutemen and fIREHOSE; , he is also the bassist for the reunited The Stooges and a member of the art rock/jazz/Punk rock/improvisation group Banyan as well as many other post-Minutemen projects....
    )
  • Ground (1995) (w. Nels Cline Trio
    Nels Cline Trio

    The Nels Cline Trio were a group of free jazz musicians active in Santa Monica, California in the 1990s, led by Nels Cline....
    )
  • Chest (1996) (w. Nels Cline Trio
    Nels Cline Trio

    The Nels Cline Trio were a group of free jazz musicians active in Santa Monica, California in the 1990s, led by Nels Cline....
    )
  • Banyan (1997) (w. Banyan
    Banyan

    A banyan is a Ficus that starts its life as an epiphyte when its seeds germinate in the cracks and crevices on a host tree . "Banyan" often refers specifically to the species Ficus benghalensis, though the term has been generalized to include all figs that share a unique life cycle, and systematics to refer to the subgenus Urostigma'...
    )
  • Butch (1997) (w. Geraldine Fibbers
    Geraldine Fibbers

    The Geraldine Fibbers were an Alternative country band founded in 1994 by Carla Bozulich. Initially, band members included Bozulich, Daniel Keenan, Jessy Greene, William Tutton and Kevin Fitzgerald....
    )
  • Contemplating the Engine Room (1997) (w. Mike Watt
    Mike Watt

    Michael David Watt is an American bass guitarist, singer and songwriter.He is best-known for co-founding the rock bands The Minutemen and fIREHOSE; , he is also the bassist for the reunited The Stooges and a member of the art rock/jazz/Punk rock/improvisation group Banyan as well as many other post-Minutemen projects....
    )
  • In-Store (1996) (w. Thurston Moore
    Thurston Moore

    Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running Ecstatic Peace! records....
    )
  • Pillow Wand (1997) (w. Thurston Moore
    Thurston Moore

    Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running Ecstatic Peace! records....
    )
  • Sad (1998) (w. Nels Cline Trio
    Nels Cline Trio

    The Nels Cline Trio were a group of free jazz musicians active in Santa Monica, California in the 1990s, led by Nels Cline....
    )
  • Scarnella (1998) (w. Carla Bozulich
    Carla Bozulich

    Carla Bozulich is an American musician based in Los Angeles, known for her work as the lead singer of Geraldine Fibbers and as a founding member of Ethyl Meatplow....
    )
  • Edible Flowers (1998) (w. Devin Sarno
    Devin Sarno

    Devin Sarno began "CRIB" in early 1990 as a solo bass sound project focusing on improvised subsonics. Over the course of a decade his music evolved from high volume feedback experimentation to a sonic examination of the meditative properties of low-end drone music....
    )
  • Anytime at All (1999) (w. Banyan
    Banyan

    A banyan is a Ficus that starts its life as an epiphyte when its seeds germinate in the cracks and crevices on a host tree . "Banyan" often refers specifically to the species Ficus benghalensis, though the term has been generalized to include all figs that share a unique life cycle, and systematics to refer to the subgenus Urostigma'...
    )
  • Interstellar Space Revisited: The Music of John Coltrane
    John Coltrane

    John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
     (1999) (w. Gregg Bendian
    Gregg Bendian

    Gregg Bendian is a jazz percussionist and composer, primarily a vibraphonist. He was born on July 13 1963 in Englewood, New Jersey.Bendian studied under Noel DaCosta....
    )
  • The Inkling (2000)
  • Destroy All Nels Cline (2001)
  • Acoustic Guitar Trio (2001) (w. Jim McAuley & Rod Poole)
  • Instrumentals (2002) (w. The Nels Cline Singers
    The Nels Cline Singers

    The Nels Cline Singers are a free jazz trio led by Nels Cline, following his work in the Nels Cline Trio. They have released three albums on Cryptogramophone Records....
    )
  • Buried on Bunker Hill (2004) (w. Devin Sarno
    Devin Sarno

    Devin Sarno began "CRIB" in early 1990 as a solo bass sound project focusing on improvised subsonics. Over the course of a decade his music evolved from high volume feedback experimentation to a sonic examination of the meditative properties of low-end drone music....
    )
  • The Entire Time (2004) (w. Vinny Golia
    Vinny Golia

    Vinny Golia is an United States composer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in woodwind instruments. He performs in the genres of contemporary classical music, jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation....
    )
  • The Giant Pin (2004) (w. The Nels Cline Singers
    The Nels Cline Singers

    The Nels Cline Singers are a free jazz trio led by Nels Cline, following his work in the Nels Cline Trio. They have released three albums on Cryptogramophone Records....
    )
  • Out Trios Series, Volume 3: Ash and Tabula (2004) (w. Andrea Parkins
    Andrea Parkins

    Andrea Parkins is an American composer, sound artist, performer and improviser.Andrea Parkins has improvised with musicians such as Nels Cline, Jim Black, Ellery Eskelin, Guenter Muller, David Watson, David Fenech, etc....
     & Tom Rainey
    Tom Rainey

    Thomas "Tom" Rainey is an American drummer. He has played with American jazz saxophonist and composer Tim Berne, and also with Simon Nabatov....
    )
  • Immolation/Immertion (2005) (w. Wally Shoup & Chris Corsano
    Chris Corsano

    Chris Corsano is a drummer from New England, USA. He often performs in an musical improvisation duo with saxophonist Paul Flaherty . He has also recorded material with artists such as Dredd Foole, Jandek, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Six Organs of Admittance, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Matt Valentine, Nels Cline, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Cold...
    )
  • Distressed (2006) (w. Damsel)
  • New Monastery: A View Into The Music of Andrew Hill
    Andrew Hill

    Andrew Hill was an United States jazz pianist and composer.Hill is recognized as one the most important progenitors of Free jazz piano, though he is considered more mainstream jazz than Cecil Taylor, who is two years older than Hill....
     (2006)
  • Downpour (2007) (w. Andrea Parkins
    Andrea Parkins

    Andrea Parkins is an American composer, sound artist, performer and improviser.Andrea Parkins has improvised with musicians such as Nels Cline, Jim Black, Ellery Eskelin, Guenter Muller, David Watson, David Fenech, etc....
     & Tom Rainey
    Tom Rainey

    Thomas "Tom" Rainey is an American drummer. He has played with American jazz saxophonist and composer Tim Berne, and also with Simon Nabatov....
    )
  • Sky Blue Sky (2007) (w. Wilco
    Wilco

    Wilco is an American Rock music band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure....
    )
  • Draw Breath (2007) (w. The Nels Cline Singers
    The Nels Cline Singers

    The Nels Cline Singers are a free jazz trio led by Nels Cline, following his work in the Nels Cline Trio. They have released three albums on Cryptogramophone Records....
    )
  • Duo Milano (2007) (w. Elliott Sharp
    Elliott Sharp

    Elliott Sharp is an United States multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.A key figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years, Sharp has released over sixty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and Orchestra to Noise music, no wave rock, and techno music....
    )
  • Suite: Bittersweet (2007) (w. Wally Shoup & Greg Campbell)
  • Coward (2009)

External links


  • – from Little Brother Records; includes detailed descriptions of some of Nels's albums up to 1998