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Thomas Buckner (b. 1941) is an American baritone vocalist performing contemporary classical music and improvised music. Buckner worked as a concert promoter in Berkeley (California, USA) by founding the 1750 Arch Concerts, which presented over a hundred musical events per year for eight years. He also founded the label 1750 Arch Records which released more than fifty records. Buckner co-led the Arch Ensemble until he left California for New York City in 1983, where he began a long association with renowned composer Robert Ashley. In 2000, he founded Mutable Music.

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Thomas Buckner Sings Robert Ashley
Spontaneous Musical Invention
2023, 2xLP, Album, Recital (2)
Roscoe Mitchell, Thomas Buckner, Scott Robinson
Visions: Live at Vision Festival 2018
2022, CD, ScienSonic, ,
Free Improvisation
Bun-Ching Lam, Thomas Buckner
Conversations With My Soul
2021, CD, Album, Navona Records
Roscoe Mitchell, Thomas Buckner, Gerald Oshita
Soundscape 1979
2017, CD, ScienSonic, ,
Free Improvisation
Jason Kao Hwang* Featuring Thomas Buckner and Deanna Relyea
Voice
2015, CD, Album, Innova Recordings
Thomas Buckner / Joëlle Léandre / Nicole Mitchell
Flowing Stream
2014, CD, Album, Leo Records
Thomas Buckner, Claudio Parodi
Taken From A True Story
2014, CD, Album, Extreme
Robert Dick & Thomas Buckner
Flutes & Voices
2011, CD, Album, Mutable Music
Thomas Buckner, Edyta Fil, Ilia Belorukov, Alexey Lapin, Juho Laitinen
Bewitched Concert
2011, CD, Album, Intonema
Thomas Buckner - S.E.M. Ensemble / Continuum (4) - Annea Lockwood / Tania León / Petr Kotik
New Music For Baritone & Chamber Ensemble
2007, CD, Mutable Music, ,
Contemporary/Avantgarde
Jérôme Bourdellon + Thomas Buckner
Totem
2006, CD, Album, Mutable Music
Mel Graves / George Marsh / Thomas Buckner
Homage
2005, CD, Album, Mutable Music
Thomas Buckner
Contexts
2005, CD, Album, Mutable Music
Somei Satoh - Thomas Buckner / The Janáček Philharmonic* / Petr Kotik
From The Depth Of Silence
2004, CD, Album, Mode, ,
Contemporary
Jerome Cooper & Thomas Buckner
Alone, Together, Apart
2003, CD, Album, Mutable Music
Thomas Buckner / Tom Hamilton
Jump The Circle, Jump The Line
2001, CD, Mutable Music
Mel Graves - Bob Afifi, Thomas Buckner, Ethel
Day Of Love
2001, CD, Album, Mutable Music
Roscoe Mitchell & Thomas Buckner
8 O'Clock: Two Improvisations
2001, CD, Album, Mutable Music, ,
Free Improvisation
Thomas Buckner
His Tone of Voice
2000, CD, Album, Lovely Music, Ltd., ,
Contemporary
Stephen Dickman Featuring Thomas Buckner
Who Says Words
1999, CD, Album, New World Records
William Parker, Joseph Jarman, Daniel Carter, Roy Campbell, Sabir Mateen, Leena Conquest, Thomas Buckner
Alain Kirili Musée Grenoble
1999, CD, Not On Label, ,
Free Improvisation
Thomas Buckner
Inner Journey
1998, CD, Album, Lovely Music, Ltd., ,
Contemporary
Daniel Rothman - Thomas Buckner, David Smeyers, Wadada Leo Smith, Ted Mook*, Kent Clelland
Cézanne's Doubt
1997, CD, Album, New World Records, ,
Contemporary
Borah Bergman / Roscoe Mitchell With Thomas Buckner
First Meeting
1995, CD, Knitting Factory Works, ,
Free Jazz
Act of Finding : Bruce Arnold, Thomas Buckner, Tom Hamilton (3), Ratzo B. Harris
Act Of Finding
1995, CD, Album, OODiscs, ,
Free Improvisation/Experimental/Contemporary
Thomas Buckner
Sign Of The Times
1994, CD, Album, Lovely Music, Ltd., ,
Contemporary
Thomas Buckner
Full Spectrum Voice
1991, CD, Album, Lovely Music, Ltd., ,
Contemporary
Gérard Pape - Arditti Quartet, William Albright, Thomas Buckner, Janet Pape, Prism Orchestra*, Ann Arbor Chamber Orchestra
Gérard Pape
1991, CD, Album, Mode, ,
Contemporary/Experimental
Space (12) - Roscoe Mitchell / Tom Buckner* / Gerald Oshita
Improvisations – An Interesting Breakfast Conversation
1984, LP, Album, 1750 Arch Records
Tom Buckner*, Gerald Oshita, Roscoe Mitchell
New Music For Woodwinds And Voice
1981, LP, Wak, 1750 Arch Records, ,
Free Jazz
Tom Buckner*, Joseph Bacon
Wandering In This Place (Witty, Amourous And Introspective Ayres And Lute Solos Of Elizabethan England)
1977, LP, Album, 1750 Arch Records
J.B. Floyd / Thomas Buckner / George Marsh
In Crossing The Busy Street
CD, Album, Mutable Music
Yasunao Tone
Noise Media Language
2007, CD, Comp, Errant Bodies Press
Randy Weston
Ancient Future / Blue
2002, CD, Album + CD, Album, RE, Mutable Music, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Maria de Alvear
World
1999, CD, Album, Maria de Alvear World Edition, ,
Contemporary
Barbara Held
Upper Air Observation
1992, CD, Album, Lovely Music, Ltd., ,
Musique Concrète/Contemporary/Experimental
Roscoe Mitchell
Four Compositions
1987, CD, Album, Lovely Music, Ltd., ,
Modern Classical
Randy Weston
Blue
1984, LP, Album, 1750 Arch Records
Susan Allen
New Music For Harp (Volume 1)
1982, LP, 1750 Arch Records, ,
Contemporary
Big Black
Ethnic Fusion
1982
Roscoe Mitchell & Muhal Richard Abrams
Duets And Solos
1993, CD, Album, Black Saint, Black Saint
Různí
Suoni Per Il Popolo
2013, CDr, Comp, Suoni Per Il Popolo, ,
Jazz-Rock/Lo-Fi/Neofolk/Experimental/Drone/Folk Rock/Post Rock/Free Jazz
Space
New Music For Woodwinds And Voice / An Interesting Breakfast Conversation
2000, CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + Comp, Mutable Music, ,
Free Jazz

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Roscoe Mitchell Orchestra And Space Trio*
At The Fault Zone Festival
2023, CD, Album, Wide Hive Records
Wadada Leo Smith
String Quartets Nos. 1-12
2022, 7xCD, Album + Box, TUM Records, ,
Contemporary
Jane O'Leary, Peter Dickson Lopez, Corrina Bonshek
Relive: Live Works For Orchestra And Large Ensemble
2021, CD, Album, Navona Records
Terri Hanlon & David Behrman
Tone Glow Mix 003
2020, File, MP3, VBR, Tone Glow, ,
Contemporary/Experimental
Roscoe Mitchell
Splatter
2020
James Ilgenfritz
You Scream A Rapid Language
2019, CD, Album, Infrequent Seams, ,
Contemporary
Roscoe Mitchell Orchestra
Littlefield Concert Hall Mills College March 19-20, 2018
2019
Michael Byron
The Celebration
2017, CD, Album, New World Records
Steve Swell
Kanreki: Reflection & Renewal
2015, 2xCD, Album, Not Two Records
Roscoe Mitchell
The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note
2015, 9xCD, Album, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Black Saint, Soul Note, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz
Různí
The Kitchen Improvises: 1976-1983
2015, CD, Album, Orange Mountain Music, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Contemporary
If, Bwana
Thirty
2014
Phill Niblock
Working Title
2013, 2xDVD-V, D/Sided, PAL, Les Presses Du Réel, ,
Drone/Minimal/Spoken Word
Roscoe Mitchell
Not Yet (Six Compositions)
2013, CD, Mutable Music, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Contemporary
Frances White
In The Library Of Dreams
2012, CD, Album, Pogus Productions, ,
Contemporary/Experimental
Annea Lockwood
In Our Name
2012, CD, Album, New World Records
Guy Klucevsek, Ain't Nothin' But A Polka Band
Polka From The Fringe
2012, 2xCD, Comp, Starkland, ,
Polka/Experimental
"Blue" Gene Tyranny
Detours
2012
Ostravská Banda
On Tour
2011, 2xCD, Mutable Music, ,
Contemporary
Bun-Ching Lam
Heidelberg Concerts
2011, 2xCD, Album, Mutable Music, ,
Post-Modern/Avant-garde Jazz
Roscoe Mitchell
Numbers
2011, CD, Album, Rogueart
Různí
Grubenklang.Reloaded
2011, DVD-V, Ltd, Random Acoustics (2), ,
Spoken Word/Free Jazz/Poetry/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation/Contemporary
Dan Joseph
Tonalization (For The Afterlife)
2011, CD, Album, Mutable Music
Chinary Ung
Music Of Chinary Ung Vol. 3
2011, CD, Album, Bridge Records (4)
Noah Creshevsky
The Twilight Of The Gods
2010, CD, Album, Tzadik, ,
Musique Concrète/Contemporary/Sound Collage
Matthew Welch
Luminosity
2009, CD, Album, Porter Records, ,
Free Jazz/Avantgarde/Experimental
Muhal Richard Abrams / Roscoe Mitchell
Spectrum
2009, CD, Album, Mutable Music, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Ushio Torikai
Rest
2009, CD, Album, Innova Recordings, ,
Contemporary/Post-Modern
"Blue" Gene Tyranny
The Somewhere Songs / The Invention Of Memory
2008, CD, Album, Mutable Music, ,
Abstract/Modern Classical/Contemporary
Kirili Et Les Nymphéas
Hommage A Monet (Improvised Music At The Musée De L'Orangerie)
2008, CD + DVD, Mutable Music
Robert Ashley
Concrete
2008, 2xCD, Album, Lovely Music, Ltd., ,
Contemporary/Opera
Julie Christensen And Stone Cupid
Where The Fireworks Are
2008, CD, Album, Household Ink Records, ,
Folk Rock
Robert Ashley & Walter Marchetti
October 25, 2001 Merkin Concert Hall NYC
2007, 2xLP, Ltd, Choose Records
Robert Ashley
Now Eleanor's Idea
2007, 2xCD, Album, Lovely Music, Ltd.
Noah Creshevsky
To Know And Not To Know
2007, CD, Album, Tzadik
Timeless Pulse
Quintet
2007, CD, Album, Mutable Music
W.A. Mathieu*
The Indian Parrot And Other Stories: The Music Of W.A. Mathieu
2006, CD, Album, Mutable Music
Chris Chalfant
Book Of Unstandards
2006, 2xCD, Album, Jyaku Sound
Robert Ashley
Foreign Experiences
2006
Různí
HörenSagen - Erzählende Musik
2005, 2xCD, Comp, Nur/Nicht/Nur, ,
Spoken Word/Modern Classical/Drone/Dark Ambient/Radioplay/Abstract/Experimental/Post-Modern
Robert Ashley
Celestial Excursions
2005, 2xCD + Box, Lovely Music, Ltd.
Různí
Vision Volume 3
2005, CD, Ltd + DVD, Arts For Art, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
JD Parran* & Mark Deutsch
Omegathorp: Living City
2005, CD, Album, Y'All Of New York
David Behrman
My Dear Siegfried
2005, 2x CD, ,
Experimental
J.B. Floyd
Transporting Transmittance
2003, CD, Album, Mutable Music
Noah Creshevsky
Hyperrealism (Electroacoustic Music By Noah Creshevsky)
2003, CD, Album, Mutable Music
Různí
Subtropics Vol. 1: Breath
2002, CD, Ltd, Num, Elegua, ,
Abstract/Experimental
Různí
45'18"
2002, CD, Comp, Korm Plastics, ,
Musique Concrète/Experimental
Různí
Festival Beyond Innocence: A Brief History In 67 Chapters
2002, 4xCD, Comp, FBI Disc, ,
Free Improvisation/Avantgarde/Experimental
Muhal Richard Abrams
The Visibility Of Thought
2001, CD, Album, Mutable Music
Larry Austin
Octo Mixes: Octophonic Computer Music 1996-2001
2001, CD, Album, Electronic Music Foundation
Morton Subotnick
Volume 1: Electronic Works
2001, CD, ,
Contemporary/Experimental/Musique Concrète
Phill Niblock
Touch Works, For Hurdy Gurdy And Voice
2001, CD, ,
Modern Classical/Minimal/Experimental/Avantgarde
Robert Ashley
Dust
2000, 2xCD, Album, Lovely Music, Ltd.
David Behrman, David Rosenboom, Barry Schrader, Morton Subotnick, Mark Trayle
Transmigration Music
2000, CD, Comp, Centaur Records, ,
Experimental
Alvin Lucier
Theme
1999, CD, Lovely Music, Ltd., ,
Experimental
Annea Lockwood
Breaking The Surface
1999, CD, Album, Lovely Music, Ltd.
Thurman Barker
The Way I Hear It
1998, CD, Album, Uptee Productions, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Deep Listening Band – Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper, Stuart Dempster
Non Stop Flight
1998, CD, Album, Music & Arts
Robert Ashley
Your Money My Life Goodbye
1998, CD, Album, Lovely Music, Ltd., ,
Opera/Contemporary
Bruce Arnold
Blue Eleven
1996, CD, Album, MMC Recordings
Sorrel Hays
Dreaming The World
1996, CD, Album, New World Records, ,
Contemporary
Tom Hamilton
Off-Hour Wait State
1996, CD, Album, OODiscs, ,
Experimental
Deep Listening Band
Sanctuary
1995, CD, Album, Mode, ,
Contemporary/Experimental
Robert Ashley
Superior Seven / Tract
1995, CD, Album, New World Records
Jin Hi Kim
Living Tones
1995, ,
Experimental/Free Improvisation
Robert Ashley
eL/Aficionado
1994, CD, Album, Lovely Music, Ltd., ,
Contemporary/Opera
Yasunao Tone
Musica Iconologos
1993, CD, Album, Lovely Music, Ltd.
Roscoe Mitchell, New Chamber Ensemble
Pilgrimage
1993, CD, Lovely Music, Ltd.
Robert Ashley
Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)
1992, ,
Contemporary/Experimental
Guy Klucevsek With Ain't Nothin' But A Polka Band
?Who Stole The Polka?
1992, CD,
Různí
Imaginary Landscapes: New Electronic Music
1989
Robert Ashley
Atalanta (Acts Of God)
1985
Roscoe Mitchell
And The Sound And Space Ensembles
1984
Peter Dickson Lopez, D. H. Lawrence
The Ship Of Death
1983, LP, 1750 Arch Records, 1750 Arch Records, ,
Avantgarde/Modern
George Marsh Featuring Mel Graves
Marshland
1982, LP, Album, 1750 Arch Records, ,
Bop/Experimental
Luigi Dallapiccola
The Music Of Luigi Dallapiccola
1979, LP, 1750 Arch Records
Denny Zeitlin, George Marsh, Ratzo B. Harris
Syzygy
1977, LP, Album, 1750 Arch Records
Různí
Music Makers Strings
1975
Dufay* - Musica Mundana
Fifteen Songs
1974
The Ghost Opera
The Ghost Opera Company
1971
Timeless Pulse Quintet*
Untitled
File, MP3, 80 , Not On Label (George Marsh Self-released)
Různí
Strength In Numbers, Vol. 5
2021, 12xFile, FLAC, 16 + File, FLAC, 24 + Comp, Chant Records (2)