Vocalist Theo Bleckmann (pictured, left, with percussionist and composer John Hollenbeck) is one of the most flexible and uncategorizable figures on the New York scene; since the mid-90s he’s been ...

Theo Bleckmann. A jazz singer and new music composer of eclectic tastes and prodigious gifts, GRAMMY NOMINATED Theo Bleckmann makes music that is accessibly sophisticated, unsentimentally emotional, ...

For a moment, Theo Bleckmann didn’t know if he was alive or dead. Five years ago, the New York-based vocalist and composer, who has been a fixture in the avant-garde and jazz scenes for 25 years, was ...

There we were in Theo Bleckmann’s tastefully spartan Murray Hill studio apartment, eating Neuhaus chocolates and discussing such advanced vocal techniques as ingressive singing (singing on the inhale, ...

Vocalist and composer Theo Bleckmann has been a leader or collaborator on some of the most interesting jazz and new-music projects of the past 25 years. He has clear, crisp diction and can render a ...

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While ECM is a label largely renowned for its subtlety, attention to space and detail, and overall understated, "less is more" aesthetic—an early sampler titled, even, The Most Beautiful Sound Next To ...