Jean-Luc / Mabel Kwan / Mark Feldman / Joshua Abrams / Michael Zerang
@ Elastic Arts
Percussionist Improvisor Composer
Photo by Dawid Laskowski
Pink Palace is Michael Zerang’s personal label that releases a variety of his newer projects across a spectrum of recorded formats, as well as older material from his archives.
Upcoming Performance
Taiko Reduction
@ Museum of Contemporary Art
News
Dr. Jazz Talks #371: Samo Šalamon & Michael Zerang interview
October 20, 2023
I was recently interviewed by Sam Salamon: “New interview from the Dr. Jazz Talks interview series, this time Michael Zerang – amazing drummer and composer, one of the best improvising drummers around … We talk about Michael’s beginnings and influences, being a bandleader, playing with Peter Brötzmann, Hamid Drake, Ken Vandermark and others, the US […]
RIP Peter Brötzmann
August 4, 2023
(March 6, 1941 – July 22, 2023)
Two Reissues from 1997
April 5, 2023
I am reissuing two releases on my Pink Palace Records label. ***THE BALLAD OF FRANKIE AND JOHNNY Limited edition reissue of a 1997 release of the original score for Redmoon Puppet Theater by Michael Zerang. Available as a CD. I received a Jeff Award for Original Music for Theater for this project. Performed by: Jeremy […]
Michael Zerang Interview for Bandcamp
March 27, 2023
I was recently featured in an interview by Levi Dayan for Bandcamp Daily! Check it out here: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/michael-zerang-schiamachy-interview
The Velvet Bell
September 6, 2022
The summer of 2020, during the early days of the Covid lockdown, I was given an artifact from a shuttered Chicago music venue, The Velvet Lounge, by Andy Pierce, a personal assistant to the late, great saxophonist and composer Fred Anderson, who ran the club. The artifact is the brass sconce of the chandelier that […]