AllAboutJazz.com describes a Jeff Kaiser live performance as a
“manic, hallucinogenic joyride through time, space and tonal distortions. He took some of the extended techniques of Lester Bowie and Bill Dixon, and stretched them past the breaking point. He would bend a note, transpose it to an impossible octave, and then send it spinning around the room like a remote-control airplane…”
Jeff Kaiser is a trumpet player, composer, conductor, media technologist, and scholar. Classically trained as a trumpet player and composer, Kaiser now takes an integrative, systemic view that involves his traditional instrument, emergent technology (in the form of custom interactive/generative software and hardware interfaces), and space: all being critical and integral participants in his dynamic and adventurous performances.
He gains inspiration and ideas from the rich history of experimental improvisation and composition, cognitive science, and the vast timbral and formal affordances provided by combining traditional instruments with new and repurposed technologies.
The roots of his music are firmly in the experimental traditions within jazz, improvisation, and Western art music practices.