Reedist/improviser/composer Jason Robinson divides his time between a dynamic performance and recording career, teaching, and ethno/musicological research. Robinson is an active member of the improvised and popular music scenes of the West Coast - leading his own jazz groups, collaborating in a variety of improvised and experimental contexts, and touring as a sideman with a number of groups. In 1998, Robinson founded Circumvention Music, an artist-run independent record label dedicated to the support and distribution of improvised musics. Robinson has performed/recorded with Peter Kowald, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, Lisle Ellis, Paul Plimley, Mei Han, Eugene Chadbourne, Earl Howard, Emily Hay, Jeff Kaiser, Eek a Mouse, Bertram Turetzky, Mel Graves, Marco Eneidi, Mike Wofford, Philip Gelb, J.D. Parran, Gerry Hemingway, Contemporary Jazz Orchestra (at Pearl's, San Francisco), the La Jolla Symphony, SONOR (among others), as well as theater-oriented groups such as the San Francisco Mime Troupe and the New Pickle Circus.