Inspired by music and avant-garde jazz, New York-based violinist/violist/composer Jessica Pavone's music strategically combines improvisation and composition by contrasting conventional harmony with curated dissonance, and tonal and textural experimentation. A leader and collaborator, she has, since 2002's 27 Epigrams, assembled a formidable discography on a variety of labels. In 2005, she began an ongoing recorded collaboration with guitarist Mary Halvorson for the album Prairies. Pavone's Tzadik debut in 2009 was the contemporary classical work Songs of Synastry and Solitude...