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Clarinetist, composer, and improviser James Falzone is an acclaimed member of the international jazz and creative music scenes, a veteran contemporary music lecturer and clinician, and an award-winning composer.

Falzone performs throughout North America and Europe, appears regularly on\xa0Downbeat\xa0magazine\u2019s Critics\u2019 and Readers\u2019 Polls, and was nominated as the 2011 Clarinetist of the Year by the\xa0Jazz Journalist Association.

He is also a respected educator and scholar and has been on the faculty of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Deep Springs College, North Central College, and was a fellow at The Center for Black Music Research.

At present Falzone is the Dean of Music at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington.

Stephen Anthony Rawson sits down with Falzone at Cornish\u2019s historic Kerry Hall, where John Cage first began to experiment with the prepared piano, and where Cage met his life partner, renowned dancer Merce Cunningham. They talk about Falzone's life in music, the \u201ccrooked line\u201d he\u2019s walked as an artist, bringing to balance the Already and the Not Yet in music-making, Wayfaring\u2019s new album, Intermezzo, and a whole lot more.\xa0